Communication Quote by Bill Konigsberg Download Open image ““What do you call it when a straight person comes out? ... A conversation”” — Bill Konigsberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Lgbt
“Straight people don't have to think every time they talk, about whether they are coming out. We do. That might be hard, but that's… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
You kinda say, 'Well, straight people don't have to come out.' I understand now that's not necessarily the right way to look at it. — Sue Bird Copy Share Image
“Here's a queer fact: none among the skeletons in your closet are ‘straight’ so expect them to ‘come out’ very, very soon...” — Khayri R.R. Woulfe Copy Share Image
“Having a relationship and not even a sexual one is so straight, it's practically perverted.” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“To this day, the behavior of straight men is something I’ve never been able to wrap my head around. Have you ever met one?… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
“Straight people are the most pathetic of all. I’ve never seen such a miserable group of people in my life. They don’t know anything… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
“I shivered. Careful, I told myself. You don't want to set yourself up for a fall. Be happy. Just not too happy.” — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“It’s hard when you open your heart and let someone in and then suddenly they’re not in it anymore. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is; that empty spot stings so bad that you want to find any kind of relief, or wrap yourself up so tight you can’t feel it anymore. I knew it might be there a little… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share
Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about? — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around. — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“To agape,” we all echoed, raising our wineglasses and drinking to higher love.” — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“Then Albie reached into his pocket and pulled out one shiny Jonathan apple. “Hungry?” he asked us. “How’d you do that?” I asked, wondering… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“When trust is violated, it's like you're left with an empty piggy bank. Building trust again, she said, is like putting big, fat nickels into the slot. They clank against the bottom, and that sound is jarring. But in order to heal, you have to keep adding those nickels, and soon enough, there will be coins to cushion the nickel's… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share
“I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“Why can’t I just be bad?” I asked, figuring my mom would have no idea what I was talking about. “Well, that’s easy, sweetie.… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“We hugged, and my dad cried a little. I don't have a macho-type dad, who hunts and fishes and collects guns. He's sensitive and… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“A thought came to me. What do I think about the date with Rafe? Here I am thinking about what everyone else would think,… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share
