Subject: Communication (Page 62)

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

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

If these walls could talk, they'd probably say, "No! Not the nails again! Not the hammer!

Communication Wordplay

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist
Communication Intelligence Understanding

Announce: Thirty grams or a sixteenth of a pound.

Definitions Wordplay

I will not go down in posterity talking bad grammar.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author
Communication Reading/Writing

For Muhammad Ali to compose a few words of real poetry would be equal to an intellectual throwing a punch.

(1923 – 2007) American novelist, journalist & playwright
Communication Reading/Writing

I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia; let them walk to school like I did!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Books Children Yogi-isms

They stayed away in droves.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Communication Misspokements Speech

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist
Communication Speech

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

(1923 – 1999) American satirical novelist, short story writer & playwright
Communication Insults Reading/Writing

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

(1885 – 1962) Danish physicist
Communication Thinking

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.

(1925 – ) novelist & screenwriter
Books Communication Reading/Writing

I’m not worried about the Third World War… that’s the Third World’s problem.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor
Conflict War Wordplay

As our President said in his renegurial address.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Communication Malaprops Speech

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

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

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Beliefs Communication

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

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

Madness takes its toll; please have exact change.

Communication Language Proverbs

Neither am I.

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian
Books Communication Insults

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist
Communication Emotions Situations

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president
Communication Situations Speech