Quotes about Communication

I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

I have no sounds that could serve to soothe me, no violoncello like him, no lament that anyone would recognize as a lament because it sounds subdued, in an inexpressibly tender language. I have only these lines on the yellowish paper and words that are never new, for they keep saying the same thing through an entire life.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves.