Communication Quote by Terry Nardin

There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I…

— Teju Cole

“When a person opens his or her mouth, the dialogue must contain a purpose that sounds sensible towards his or her surroundings. If the…

— Saaif Alam

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

“To talk one’s own nonsense is almost better than spouting someone else’s truth.In the first case, you’re a human being; but in the second,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know…

— Peter Farb

When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of…

— Elmore Leonard

“Most of us only find our own voice after sounding like a lot of other people”

— Neil Gaiman

“Why shall we talk? To depend on the conversation style as a primary language of effectiveness on the other person, in a way that…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi