Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Miller

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

Henny Youngman

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Gary Shteyngart

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Frank Capra

There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people - the actors. They are the intermediary between the director and the audience. They make direct contact. People to people communication.

J. B. Priestley

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Isaac Stern

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

Jeanette Winterson

The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.

Jeremy Taylor

By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.

Jeremy Irons

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It's communication. Can't we be friendly?

Jeff Bezos

No communication is terrible!

Jeff Bezos

I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

Georges Braque

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

Georges Bataille

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

George Will

The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.

George Will

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

George Russell

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

George Sanders

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

Jeff Pulver

We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution,

Jeff Pulver

In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen the transformation of the computing and communications industry with respect to traditional telecom. Now, history is repeating itself with traditional broadcasting.

Jean Racine

I can hear those glances that you think are silent.

Jean-Luc Godard

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

Frederick William Robertson

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

Fred Brooks

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

Franz Kafka

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

Franz Kafka

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.

Erica Jong

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

Jason Schwartzman

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them

Guy Pearce

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Guy Kawasaki

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

Gerry Spence

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.