Communication Quote by Norma Fox Mazer

When one is silent, those around speak even more.

— Melina Marchetta

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.”

— Katherine Applegate

Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important…

— Lidiya Ginzburg

“Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise.”

— Bryant McGill

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

— Benjamin Disraeli

when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what…

— Hannah More

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the…

— Saigyō

I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works.…

— Laurence Sterne

Silence is the intelligent person's way out of a conversation with an idiot.

— Nishan Panwar

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

— Anonymous

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

— Robertson Davies