Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Zarr

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

Adrian Grenier

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.

Adam Oates

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

Sylvia Sidney

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

Today's meeting, while not resolving all underlying issues of concern, offered an opportunity to improve lines of communication and to increase mutual cooperation on issues related to national security and the prevention of hate crimes.

We needed this win. It was good to see the communication and teamwork come back. The team really clicked.

We need to work on our communication on the court and our transition game.

We need to support communication between communities while protecting large companies' confidential directory information. That's what it takes to make this technology fit for business.

We're upset there was not more communication up front. But we want to be a part of the process so that we can at least have some of our views heard.

Elizabeth Jagger

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

Hill Harper

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

With a freshman sweeper that's probably going to be in front of her, she's going to be real big (for us). For her to take her communication skills and leadership and just her overall experience look for her to take control there in the back especially on set pieces, getting them organized.

Dale Spender

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

David Cameron

There should be no means of communication which we cannot read.

Dave Eggers

No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You’re at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you’re staring at a screen, searching for strangers in Dubai.

David Gergen

Ronald Reagan rebuilt the American presidency; it was in trouble when he came into office as an institution, and he did through his communications and through his own inspiration, and his principles. I think he did lift our spirits about, and convince us that once again that the future of the best, our best days were always ahead of us.

David Bohm

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

David Bohm

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

David A. Bednar

The Lord has made available in our day remarkable resources that enable you to learn about and love this work that is sparked by the Spirit of ElijahIt is no coincidence that FamilySearch and other tools have come forth at a time when young people are so familiar with a wide range of information and communication technologies. Your fingers have been trained to text and tweet to accelerate and advance the work of the Lord-not just to communicate quickly with your friends. The skills and aptitude evident among many young people today are a preparation to contribute to the work of salvation.

David A. Bednar

Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person-to-person communication. Beware of the digital displays and data in many forms of computer-mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience.

Face-to-face communication is really the way to go, but some people can't do that.

Families were not provided with specific information on community service referrals. There's a total lack of communication from the program base.

But more than a lack of guidance is a lack of communication, really,

The government has accompanied the planned sale. Of course there has been communication in the run-up.

Meryl Streep

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

Benjamin F. Wade

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

Biz Stone

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

Claude Shannon

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Cynthia Ozick

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Daniel O'Connell

Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.

Dan O'Brien

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

Cormac McCarthy

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?