Communication Quotes · Page 230

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

— Dennis Roch

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.

— Reggie Evans

I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

— Chris Gardner

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

— Phyllis McGinley

If you text me first, you are legally obligated to continue the conversation!

— Anonymous

“Listen' he whispered ferociously, like a ferocious breeze or a very gentle hurricane.”

— The Harvard Lampoon

“GOD GIVES US TWO EARS TO LISTEN MORE AND ONE TONGUE TO SPEAK LESS.”

— USMAN HYDER

“Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

— Cassandra Clare

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a…

— Fiona Apple

“Use communication to own your worth and show others theirs, to repair broken bridges and show you care.”

— Sam Owen

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

— Deborah Tannen

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of…

— Nick Clegg

Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a…

— Jon Lovett

It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the…

— Gideon Glick

You can hope and wish and pray that those things are legitimate conversions and that [Hillary Clinton] now is a different candidate,…

— Jonathan Tasini

In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of…

— John Paul Stevens

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public,…

— Pete Wilson

“The fundamental idea is that through the separation of powers and checks and balances, different voices—those of the President, the Senate, and…

— Thomas O. Sargentich

If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. You are only removing the talking and whispering from the system.…

— Bruno Monguzzi

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

— Rumi

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.

— Mason Cooley

The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did.

— Greg Boyle

“How easily an innocent remark could be misconstrued when every conversation was loaded with history.”

— Jojo Moyes

“based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,”

— Michael Wolff

Coffee and Conversation with good friends. What a good evening.

— Anonymous

Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do.

— Ayanna Pressley

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

— Jonathan Swift

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

— John Mellencamp

A happy marriage is only going to happen if you sit and talk about things.

— Kumar Anupam

Part of playmaking is communication, when you have nobody on the field talking, particularly when you are under pressure, it becomes twice…

— Steve Nicol

I have had with conversations with Mark Benton and Ben Cohen - three fellas sitting with a pint discussing the cha-cha-cha and…

— Dave Myers

I love scripts about relationships, and I love to see puppy love evolving into this mature love and communication.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue…

— Chester Brown

“Much of the president’s daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him.”

— Michael Wolff