Quotes about Communication

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

Teaching as a purpose, as such, is difficult to prescribe or talk about because the thing it is proposing to make is usually something so vague as "understanding.

If a soft answer turneth away wrath, maybe no answer stirreth wrath up.

A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.

Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told. As almost any barber can testify, there is also more than needs to be told, and more than anybody wants to hear.

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.