Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virgil Thomson

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

W. H. Auden

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.

Twiggy

Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

Vladimir Putin

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

Stephen Colbert

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstandin g.

Stephen Colbert

Speak from the balls, not from the diaphram.

Tim Berners-Lee

I think in general it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings, and the Web's a form of communications, so it generally should be good.

Tim Berners-Lee

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Thomas Kinkade

A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.

Thomas Kuhn

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Thom Mayne

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

Victor Davis Hanson

Globalization has enriched the planet beyond belief, leading to ever-increased demands of perfection. And thanks to 24/7 communications, we all instantaneously know when these expectations aren't met.

Gordon Brown

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Gordon B. Hinckley

...When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict.

Gordon B. Hinckley

When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.

Glen Davis

I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication..

Herman Melville

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Henry David Thoreau

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

Henry David Thoreau

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

Henry David Thoreau

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

Henry David Thoreau

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?

Henry David Thoreau

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.

Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Henry David Thoreau

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

Jeff Weiner

Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.

Jeff Greenfield

A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy.