communication Quotes

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

I read a lot, I write a lot, and I have conversations with people I think are intelligent and wise.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

With San Cisco, young kids are more willing to yell at whoever is standing on stage. The difference between the yelling and the quietness is if the older crowd are quiet, they're showing you respect. When you do get a cheer back from them, it's special because they are actually listening.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.