Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Zarr

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

Brian Mitchell

We plan to speak to as many customers as possible. We do have a plan to communicate as soon as possible.

Shane Carruth

Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be effective communication. Communication involves an audience of many that have a conversation, put it through the ringer, filter it and then a sense of it coalesces.

Pets are an emotional issue, and retailers have a level of communication with the key people who will make noise about these topics.

One thing he liked to do was swing. That was his favorite thing to do - to come out and swing. I think that's how the communication actually started with the teachers.

One of the key points to me is the lack of communication (among these departments). I don't understand why you don't have that. And why did the officers leave their point of cover? That completely violates standard police doctrine.

One of the reasons I'm here is to communicate with J.P.,

My feeling is that in four-to-five years, that's going to become one of the major communication systems in campaigns. It creates an opportunity for voters, people in general, to have a voice -- a very convenient voice.

Kofi Annan

Obviously we need all our tools, helicopters, trucks, communication to be able to operate, ... We are placed in a situation where the government has not been cooperating and has limited the movements of our troops.

Jason Bateman

I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.

But we have concern about any requirement for wireless tracking and communication because -- for now -- that technology doesn't work in a deep mine.

Joshua Foer

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.

Howard Baker

I explained the American situation. I promised to pass on the substance of her communication to Washington as soon as possible. I did that. Well, certainly, the issue was difficult and painful. The relationship between Mrs. Tanaka and me and our two governments was difficult, but it was not painful.

I can't get through. All lines of communication are out.

I can't possibly communicate how important it is to have A/C properly designed and installed, ... It's critical.

I have daily communication with people. Every week I have direct meetings with 100,000 people in town squares. Most people know my proposals and in no way do I consider it a lack of respect.

I don't have an agenda. I intend on working toward a cooperative (effort), and opening the communication process. I think those things are important to all of us.

Dick Vermeil

I don't have any information. In fact, sometimes I get upset because I don't have more information. But the information and communication system is in the right hands.

Bryant H. McGill

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

Carson McCullers

Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

Carl Zimmer

Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.

Alan Lightman

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

Alain de Botton

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

Charles Kennedy

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

Charles Darwin

Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many truly kind-hearted people there are, with whom he never before had, or ever again will have any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the most disinterested assistance.

Barry Eisler

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

Barry Goldwater

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Edmund Muskie

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

Edmund Muskie

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

Edmund Burke

It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

Edward Sapir

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.