Famous Quotes & Sayings

It may take a while, but it's pretty easy to tell when people are pretending to be kids. The communication is different.

E. B. White

It shows the complexity of the day -- the frailties, lack of communication and frustration. This is not a happy film; this is not a pretty film; this film describes in real time the deaths that occurred. It shows footage of the Towers and the Pentagon and weaves Flight 93 through it all.

For about two hours, we had no communication in the county.

It's one degree more likely that mere communication about the means of accomplishing a hack would be subject to penalties.

Lois Capps

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

Mao Zedong

What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

Mao Zedong

The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.

Mao Zedong

It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx or Engels. The salvos of the October Revolution awoke us to Marxism-Leninism.

Mao Zedong

Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.

Mao Zedong

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

Lynne Truss

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

Lynne Truss

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

Lucy Liu

Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.

John Fletcher

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Jonathan Lethem

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

Joyce Carol Oates

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible.

Pankaj Mishra

As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity.

Paul Watzlawick

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

Paul Watzlawick

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Paul Watson

We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves within linked wilderness ecosystems. No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas. Communication systems can link the communities.

Mary Douglas

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

Pope John Paul II

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Pope John Paul II

If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

Pope Francis

Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.

Paulo Coelho

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Quentin Tarantino

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.

Prince Philip

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

Mike Fitzpatrick

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

Jim Rohn

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

Jim Rohn

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.

Jim Rohn

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

Elliott Gould

I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating is an interesting thing with a condition like that. Sometimes it's difficult to communicate. If the brain becomes atrophied or certain channels of the brain become atrophied, then contact is what becomes really important.