Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Riesman

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

David Hume

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.

Audre Lorde

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

Arnold Bennett

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Antonin Artaud

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Denis Waitley

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

Dennis Miller

[The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it's just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you've never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you're hearing.

Alain de Botton

I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

Charles Kennedy

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

Diana Gabaldon

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

Arthur Miller

Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.

Busta Rhymes

I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.

Branch Rickey

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Elias Hicks

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,

Carl Gustav Jung

We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain

John Gardner

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

Albert Speer

One seldom recognizes the devil when he has his hand on your shoulder.

William Shakespeare

O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.

Pat Coyle

She turned it really good. And I'm not sure of the status yet.

Shannon Stevens

She said every place she went, he showed up.

Carter G. Woodson

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Abu Ghraib

What have those Jordanians and Palestinians and Saudis got to do with us? Shame on them!

Judy Pardonnet

I don't think it's anything specific to this area, but it's still under investigation.

Freddie Ljungberg

I think we can upset some of the big teams,

Adam Davis

That stuff comes and goes. It's something you've got to play through.

M. Hardman

We'll do it again. We're going to see it through.

Eileen collins

I've been in your shoes many times so I understand.