Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Not until 1761 did any grammarian settle on the eight that became the canonical parts of speech in English. He was the… — Bryan A. Garner Copy Share Image
“Listen to everything that is said, and see everything that is done. Observe the looks and countenances of those who speak, which… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I make a strong case for poor sexual communication as the root cause of some assaults. I say some assaults because we… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
“Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The world is existing on which basis? It is the mistake of atikraman (aggression through thoughts, speech or action). There is no… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
“the same boat, and allow conversations to unfold naturally. When we take the time to get to know someone, asking questions instead… — Annie Grace Copy Share Image
I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
I am in communication with almost everybody I've done a story about. I have a fantasy that if I ever strike it… — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
By all means, if you have a chemical imbalance, use medication. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to have a… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
“Progress after 1970 continued but focused more narrowly on entertainment, communication, and information technology, in which areas progress did not arrive with… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“We hear speech as a string of separate words, but unlike the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
How'd you communicate?" "Paper and pen. Amazing inventions. Anyway, once we were in Buffalo, I led him here. We couldn't figure out… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I’m supposed to be all re-injected with yes-we-can fever after the big health care speech, and it was a great speech -… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“The more man advances in the mystery of God, the more he loses speech. Man is enveloped in a power of love,… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“Said by whom? Said to whom? Not by a mind to a mind, but by a being who has body and language… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom of speech, and at the same time I think that sometimes it can be worth it to not… — G.W. Sok Copy Share Image
“All of life’s experiences are either “it” or “not it.” They either match you, your spirit, and your intentions . . .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When you know you haven't been connecting with, persuading, or getting through to someone, consciously pause before meeting them and say to… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“This raises the question of the role of Kantianism in Piaget's thinking. In the many discussions about this problem with one of… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into… — Norman Potter Copy Share Image
“What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of the lips, the language given… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“It’s true, though, that we struggled to stay on message. My advisors had to deal with a candidate—me—who often wanted something new… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Okay, there were a lot of uncomfortable conversations a person had to have in their life. When they broke up with someone,… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
“A “new world” view of the brain suggests instead that communication is itself an emotional phenomenon that depends on three interrelational rather… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
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