Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee De Forest

I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication. [...] Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.

Laurie Helgoe

America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

Laura Benanti

I think it's a deeper issue on the lack of communication in our culture in general. It's not abnormal to see a family out to dinner and every person is on their phone instead of communicating with each other and that's pretty sad.

L. Ron Hubbard

Communication is the universal solvent.

Thomas Aquinas

If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

Theresa May

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.

Leo Rosten

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo Rosten

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Leo Rosten

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.

Leonard Baskin

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Joseph Stowell

Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

Joseph Campbell

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

Joseph Campbell

Don't do anything that isn't play

Joseph Campbell

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.

Karl Popper

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Karen Black

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Juliette Gordon Low

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

Juliette Lewis

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

Joseph Parker

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

Joseph Priestley

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

Joshua Lederberg

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

Josh Billings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Karl Jaspers

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

Karl Barth

A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.

Karl Kraus

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

Karl Kraus

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

Oscar Wilde

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Kanye West

Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.

June Jordan

There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of all men. . . . This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone understood. He has never been listened to. . . . That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage.