Subject: Communication (Page 21)

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist
Communication Conversation Speech

A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

(1902 – 1994) British-born American trial lawyer & author
Communication Speech

Writing is easy. You just open a vein and bleed.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Communication Reading/Writing

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn’t going to quotable.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
Communication

My handwriting looks as if a swarm of ants, escaping from an ink bottle, had walked over a sheet of paper without wiping their legs.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Communication People Reading/Writing Self

Anyone who says, 'You had to be there,' should just not have told you the thing in the first place because it's not funny.

(1968 – ) American actor & comedian
Communication Laughter Situations

I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.”

(1973 – ) American comedian
Communication Language Self

A day without sunshine is like, you know… night.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician
Communication Wordplay

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

(1924 – 1984) American author
Entertainment Life Reading/Writing

Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Books Communication Reviews/Criticism

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

(1890 – 1969) 34th U.S. president, U.S. Army General
Communication Intelligence Speech

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host
Communication Reading/Writing

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water.

Communication Problems Speech

Even those who call Mr. Faulkner our greatest literary sadist do not fully appreciate him, for it is not merely his characters who have to run the gauntlet but also his readers.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host
Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

I want to write a mystery novel… or do I?

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer
Communication Reading/Writing

Bad spellers of the world, untie!

Communication Language

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Communication Speech

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

(1885 – 1962) Danish physicist
Communication Thinking

Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.

(1923 – ) American quote & quip writer
Communication Congress Frugal Government Money Speech

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator
Communication Definitions Reading/Writing

An argument is a question with two sides and no end.

Beliefs Communication