Communication Quote by Mark Helprin

“how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything.”

— Patrick Ness

“O.K., then, all right, they would adopt a white-trash dog. Ha ha. They could name it Zeke, buy it a little corncob pipe and…

— George Saunders

“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.”

— Alison Bechdel

“They were confident and cunning. They weren't mucking around looking for nuclear weapon secret sloppy seconds in America. They could care less about America.…

— Chelsea Cain Ira Levin

“Though they have not the capacity to reply, I refuse to believe that our pets have no comprehension”

— Robert Masello

“Colonel da Silva was particularly upset. All the trouble he had taken to lead the crows astray had come to nothing. He felt he…

— Eva Ibbotson

“There is no way to communicate to a dog that one is sorry that we live in the world but it is the only…

— Jonathon Safran Foer

“The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs.”

— John Irving

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I knew nothing at all of the art of diplomacy, which I have since diagnosed as the ability to make the nastiest possible comment…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.”

— Kurt Vonnegut