Quotes On Communication

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.