Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

Singing is the lowest form of communication.

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another

I can't speak to the types of communication he had with other brothers. But I know he was open to communication.

I doubt that the transcript would be a very satisfactory communication vehicle.

Felix Hernandez

I don't think any of the things (that have been speculated on) about communication are a problem. I'd say we already have pretty good communication.

Erica Jong

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

Jason Schwartzman

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them

Hillary Clinton

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

Herbert Marcuse

The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune against the expression of protest and refusal.

Evelyn Glennie

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

Eugene Kennedy

There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

Italo Calvino

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Isabelle Adjani

Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.

Irwin Redlener

Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.

Iqbal Sacranie

The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

Jack Lynch

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

J. B. Priestley

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Isaac Stern

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

Guy Pearce

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Guy Kawasaki

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

Gerry Spence

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

Georges Simenon

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Georges Simenon

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world

Gregory Bateson

Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms

Gregory Bateson

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

I'm very happy about the way we played with runners on base. Our communication is getting better.

Niklas Zennstrom

I'm convinced over time, all voice communication will migrate to the Internet.

Margaret Beckett

I have to tell you that, sadly, this affectionate greeting contains a virus which has immobilized the House's internal communication system.

Barry Alvarez

He's someone that I could rely on. I told senior staff and everyone else, if I wasn't there, whatever Jamie's decision was, Jamie's voice was my voice and that's the type of communication and relationship and trust that I had in him.

It's a collaborative process. I work with the governor very closely. She provides ideas, from time to time she actually dictates material. Her communication is very genuine.

It is said that music is a universal language, but it can't be concluded that everybody knows music. For me, everything has wavelength, as a platform where all things communicate.

Steve Cook

It is very important for the legal profession to be involved in the community. The competition is a wonderful way to promote communication skills, confidence, poise and those kinds of things.

It was just communication. They run some killer screens so when we got hung up, we switched. The main thing was communicating.