Implicit Messaging Quotes

Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

I was never told, "Fags are going to hell." You just didn't talk about it.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.

Sexual signals can be received without being consciously sent.

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would only expose them to reflection, inquiry, and, very likely, ridicule. The proper procedure is to drill them home by constantly presupposing them, so that they become the very condition for discourse.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

I talk by playing, not by words.

But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

I never try and send messages through my feature films; it's always naturally woven in and comes through on its own, as that's the way I think about society.

There are people who are explicit and people who are implicit, right? Like I say, 'I think there is a God,' but I've seen Christian metalcore bands do altar calls at their shows and be like, 'Come get saved right now.' I think there's a subtler way, which is to say I'm being honest with my beliefs.

The Roots know how to give their audience some medicine without them even realizing it.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.