Communication Quote by Jack Vance Download Open image ““I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.”” — Jack Vance ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication
“The conversation advanced with remarkable ease. Talk is cheerful, the way talk is among people who rarely see one another and are surprised they… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“I won't have dull people, she used to say, I'm dull myself.” — Francis Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Even people who appear so dull that they couldn’t possibly have anything interesting to say, do have something interesting to say. Guaranteed. But first,… — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
“...talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and need.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Your unconscious inner conversation has helped you mimic the people around you rather than understand yourself better.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“I never much like thus being told without possibility of reply what I am to think about people whom I know.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At the time I vaguely knew that when anything stirs us that deeply, moves us to the point of distraction, and urgently invites us… — Karol Jackowski Copy Share Image
“. I know from experience, that unkind words hurt long after they are said.” — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
“I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The dead man's companions at the counter started to their feet, but halted as Voynod with great aplomb turned to face them. "Take care,… — Jack Vance 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… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image