It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.
~ James Rozoff
God uses language to create and command us.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.
~ Richard Brookhiser
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams
~ Paul C. Nagel
This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.
~ Mark Sayers
Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.
~ Joe Cawley
There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.
Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.
We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?
~ Sherry Turkle
Communication is an art and a meaningful conversation is a masterpiece.
~ Jasz Gill
Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.
~ Somali K Chakrabarti
Staring into someone’s eyes for a long time is psychic. At first it’s very strange and scary - scarier than the first time you have sex. Then you begin to relax, and the person you’re looking at may become very beautiful. As you look into their eyes, you may see them change sex or race. You can see the child in an old person and a young person may appear ancient. Just looking into someone’s eyes for a long time can be trippier than taking acid.
~ Steve Abbott
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
~ Stephen L. Carter
He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more
~ Nicholas Boothman
Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.
~ Sue Patton Thoele
One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear.
In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay
~ John Taliaferro
Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.
~ Michele Jennae
Frankie, I'm fully awake and more curious than George. If we hang up I'll lie here formulating a million reasons for your call, none of them your truth, and that would drive me crazy. You wouldn't do that to the guy who has your grandmother's old phone number, would you? Trust me, you can tell me anything.—Emerson
~ Liza M. Wiemer
I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.
~ A.j. Jacobs
You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You talk dirty to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left
~ They'll Do It.
Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers.
~ Steven Magee
Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same.
~ Harshit Walia
Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying That is enough and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words.
~ Clarice Lispector
G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.
A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.
~ James Felici
Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.
~ N.t. Wright
Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, edu- cate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.
Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.
~ Ina May Gaskin
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.
~ William H. Whyte
A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.
Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?
~ Louisa Hall
Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.
~ Haruki Murakami
Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.
~ Robert A. Caro
So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.
~ John Kasich
