communicative behavior Quotes

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.

You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even? (Dev)

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension that oozes from him when he's talking about his opponents, it's really striking.

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.