Subject: Communication (Page 41)

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Communication Language

Writer, William Faulkner about Ernest Hemingway: He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Hemingway: Poor Faulkner, Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

(1899 – 1961) author & journalist
Communication Insults Reading/Writing

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Communication Family Language Mothers

A biography is a book that is usually written about a dead person because it is so unlike him when he was alive.

(1899 – 1995) humorist
Books Characteristics Communication Reading/Writing

I will be so brief I have already finished.

(1904 – 1989) Spanish surrealist painter
Communication Speech

I have the brain of a German Shepard and the body of 16-year-old boy… they're both in my car and I want you to see them.

(1956 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & television ho
Miscellaneous Wordplay

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

Books Communication Reading/Writing Sex

The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
Communication Government Intelligence Law Lawyers Understanding

Vagina?… that sounds like something you call in sick with.

American comedian & television host
Communication Health Language

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Communication Misspokements Speech

They stayed away in droves.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Communication Misspokements Speech

I see cards that say ‘Get Well Soon’ … F**k that, get well now!

(1973 – ) American comedian
Communication Health

Nothing but old fags and cabbage-stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness.

(1885 – 1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic & painter
Communication Insults

I used to be in a band called ‘Missing Cat’… you probably saw our posters.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer
Communication Language Situations

Alarm Clock: That which scares the daylight out of you.

Definitions Wordplay

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

(1892 – 1973) English writer
Communication Speech

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

(David John Moore Cornwell) (1931 – ) British author
Books Communication Entertainment Film

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Communication Misspokements Speech

Check to see if you any words out.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

I like when good things happen to me, but I wait two weeks to tell anyone because I like to use the word ‘fortnight.’

(1973 – ) American comedian
Communication Language Time

It’s better to be quotable than honest.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
Communication