Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jaron Lanier

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Jane Roberts

SETH said: When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement.

Euripides

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

Euripides

The language of truth is simple.

Ethan Zuckerman

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Ethan Hawke

The script [of Regression] wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro [Amenabar] and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It's an interesting thing. I've had that before. I was directed by Alfonso Cuarón before, too. It's always interesting when you're being directed by somebody like that. So much of directing is about communication, and finding the right words, and what it means, and how to convey certain emotions and ideas.

Jason Epstein

Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly... and discussing public question. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all... but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied.

Caroline Knapp

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

Evan Williams

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

Gunter Grass

Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.

Jessica Alba

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

Jesse Ventura

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist....

Jay Carney

The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.

Carly Fiorina

I didn't say I would cut off all communication with [Vladimir] Putin. What I said was as president of the United States, now is not the time to talk with him.

Carly Fiorina

People who describe culture and values and how people behave - I've heard people refer to it as 'the soft stuff'-they often underestimate its importance. The soft stuff actually is the hard stuff.

Moliere

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Moliere

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Nat Turner

Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.

Nat Wolff

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

Kim Harrison

Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don’t like Inderlanders, and see genocide as an acceptable form of communication.

Kevin Pietersen

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

Abraham Lincoln

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.

Steve Smith

He (Rao) feels it is important to invest work in elevating the profile of public universities, not only in Michigan, but everywhere. A national report of this nature helps us in our communication with the legislature in Michigan.

Isaiah Berlin

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

Iris Murdoch

In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.

Gloria Steinem

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

Giorgio Armani

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.

When Communication with others is from love to love... it is deeply satisfying and healthy.

J. Michael Straczynski

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Ivan Chermayeff

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.