Joan of Arc: I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God. Robert: They come from your imagination. Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: God imagination communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now…if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period. —Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller More about this quote Tags: love communication happiness death unknown Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rarely an hour passed that they didn't argue about something. They had lived together for so many years that they mistook their arguments for conversations. —Marjorie Kellogg More about this quote Tags: relationships communication conversation arguments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. —Bill Watterson More about this quote Tags: life intelligence communication universe extra-terrestrials contact Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers. —Karen Kingsbury in Even Now More about this quote Tags: understanding friendship time communication ending Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You missed me? Five months you don't say one word to me. Not a text, not an email, nothing. That doesn't sound like you missed me. —Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd More about this quote Tags: communication missing absense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: learning communication animals English interest dolphins Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humor is also a way of saying something serious. —T. S. Eliot More about this quote Tags: humor communication seriousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young. —Judith Martin More about this quote Tags: communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Tags: communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: communication men and women misunderstandings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: silence time words perception communication pausing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: delusion understanding communication confusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. —Jenny Han in It’s Not Summer Without You More about this quote Tags: silence communication nothing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email