Subject: Communication (Page 79)

Is ‘tired old cliche’ one?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Communication Wordplay

As Doris Day used to sing Que Seroo Seroo.

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

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist
Communication Speech

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist
Insults Reading/Writing

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

(1943 – ) Polish trade-union organizer, human-rights activist & president
Communication

When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most important will be illegible.

Education Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing School

A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

Language Murphy’s Laws

Reoriented: Sent back to China.

Definitions Wordplay

I’m the lady who works at Paramount all day… and Fox all night.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
TV/Movie Quotes Wordplay

I have been called too vague by you know who… but you know the old saying…

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer
Communication Language

When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw.

(1944 – ) English writer & broadcaster
Communication Language Reading/Writing

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

(1945 – ) football coach
Books Communication Insults Reading/Writing Sports

A rule of thumb in the matter of medical advice is to take everything any doctor says with a grain of aspirin.


Doctors Health Wordplay

Quadruplets: Four crying out loud.

Children Definitions Wordplay

My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, “Pick up, I know you’re there.”

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Children Communication Family

Words must be weighed, not counted.

Communication

No matter which book you need, it's on the bottom shelf.

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist
Age Communication Reading/Writing

The less you say, the less you have to take back.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

Giraffe: The highest form of animal life.

Animals Definitions Wordplay

Pediatrician: Man of little patients.

Definitions Doctors Health Wordplay