communication quotes

I write all of my own speeches.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Speak low, if you speak love.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

If you can talk, you can write.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I write all my sermons.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.