“Here’s why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
She sensed it wasn't enough. She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“That night there was no conversation, no prayers or stories around the fire, as if the proximity of Jerusalem demanded respectful silence,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Conway's Law predicts: "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."[1]… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
“The Han language resembles no other on this earth. While I had no trouble learning to speak Mongol, and to write with… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
“I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it… — Tribhuvan Suthar Copy Share Image
It's too difficult to convey tone in electronic communication. And we can solve this my friends. All we need is some new… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of… — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
A lot of times in my short fiction there isn't much dramatized scene - there are a lot of short, interconnected bits,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html) — Michael C. Burgess Copy Share Image
Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
The fact that there were discreet channels of communication established with Iran in 2012 is something that we confirmed publicly. However, we… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action. There weren't any more… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Now I was laughing. I was still scared, but it was somehow comforting to think that maybe stage fright was a trait… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“-Write out a conversation with your inner voice. Begin the entry with a question directed to yourself, then write your mental response.… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights.… — Nancy Keenan Copy Share Image
To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too.… — Patrick Somerville Copy Share Image
“Barack Obama, in a 2007 stump speech for his nascent presidential campaign, had pledged, ‘No more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
![“A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.” quote by Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/81a/quentin-tarantino-1030_actors_a-lot-of-them-germaqn-actors-could-come_1275817.jpg)
![“Conway's Law predicts: "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."[1] Conway goes on to point out that the organization chart will initially reflect the first system design, which is almost surely…” quote by Frederick P. Brooks Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b56/frederick-p-brooks-jr-11230_communication_conway-s-law-predicts-organizations-whic_2814399.jpg)
![“By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.” quote by Ilana Mercer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/68d/ilana-mercer-6995_business_by-going-on-the-defensive-libertarians-a_768647.jpg)
![“...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want…” quote by Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a83/socrates-405_bluntness_f-rom-me-you-shall-hear-the-whole-truth_982365.jpg)
![“Now I was laughing. I was still scared, but it was somehow comforting to think that maybe stage fright was a trait [even my parents had]... "But seriously, how do you get over the jitters?" Dad was still smiling, but I could tell he had turned serious because he slowed down his speech. "You don't…” quote by Gayle Forman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/5f8/gayle-forman-312_communication_now-i-was-laughing-i-was-still-scared-bu_981933.jpg)
![“I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they’re more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ef5/anonymous-1_communication_i-believe-in-prophetic-speech-still-i-be_2601487.jpg)
