Communication Quote by Bill Maher Download Open image “Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.” — Bill Maher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Community Fire Gathering Listening Stories
In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then,… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The social function of narrative is not limited to 'primitive' people sitting around the fire telling each other where Fire came from and why… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire… — Jim Henson Productions Copy Share Image
I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I think that… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
I think stories in a community are really useful because they pass on lessons to learn, to remember people. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
I feel it's my duty to tell the story not of an individual but of a community. — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire. — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
A lot of people say they are dyslexic; some have to realize that they are just stupid. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad's room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
You see, the difference is the Republicans' hatred of Obama is based on a paranoid feeling about what he might do, what he's thinking,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“New Rule: The White House doesn't have to release the dead Bin Laden photos, but don't pretend we can't take it. We've seen pictures… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I don't hate America. I love America. I want it to be better. The only way we can get it to be better is… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism. That's right, the NFL takes money from the rich teams and gives it to the poorer one...just like President Obama wants to do with his secret army of ACORN volunteers. Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a population of one hundred thousand. Yet this sleepy little town on the banks… — Bill Maher Copy Share
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
