Quotes about Communication
Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.
- Hillary Clinton
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
- Samuel Johnson
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
- John Updike
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
- Joseph Addison
When your heart is heavy, sometimes it's just easier to retweet the words of another person who seems to know exactly how you feel.
- Germany Kent
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
- Edith Schaeffer
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
- Virginia Woolf
Why then we should drop into poetry.
- Charles Dickens
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.
- Barack Obama
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
- Frank Herbert