communication Quotes

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.