Quotes about Communication
I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.
- Max Lucado
When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.
- NT Wright
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
- Mark Twain
There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.
- Mark Twain
I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.
- Mark Twain
I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.
- Mark Twain
It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue (German) ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
- Mark Twain
Anybody can have ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
- Mark Twain
I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.
- Mark Twain
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
- Mark Twain
A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.
- Mark Twain
I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.
- Mark Twain