Communication Quote by Michael Ondaatje Download Open image ““His conversations lost some of their syllables out of shyness.”” — Michael Ondaatje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication
“I was learning that the best conversations consisted of keeping quiet and listening, and speaking, when one spoke at all, in words of a… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“There were gaps and breaks in our conversation, silences that stretched too long, silences that were short but terrifyingly deep.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“He had the look of a sensitive bard, but there was no poetry to his words; he spoke awkwardly, uncertainly, as if the sound… — N.M. Lombardi Copy Share Image
“I knew my words were harsh, as I enunciated each syllable slowly, but I felt like I had to be clear with him. We’d… — Monica Alexander Copy Share Image
“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I was glad he didn’t try to come up with something encouraging to say. Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of… — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into it, he… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
“It was as if he didn't want other people to talk to him, he was afraid that their chattering voices would drown out the… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It's almost as if we're afraid of words. They hang in the air, unspoken, and then seeing that they're not going to be used,… — Crystal Chan Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje 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
