Quotes about Communication

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

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

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.