#nic

The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#communication #funny #inspirational #kiss #kissing-quotes

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox- ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#inspirational #philosophy #communication

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#exageration #language #on-writing #power-of-words #superlatives

I wasn't aware we were fighting. I thought we were communicating, ↗

— E.L. James

#communication

It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#voice #communication

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#simile #communication

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#communication

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#reading #communication

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#foolishness #knowledge #sharing #teaching #wisdom

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#remaining-silent #reticence #communication