Communication Skills

Monogamy: A synonym for monotony. - Gregory Nunn

Is there another word for synonym? - George Carlin

Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

What we've got here is a failure to communicate. - Cool Hand Luke

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G Bennis

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. - Robert Greenleaf

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. - Mark Twain

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. - Unknown

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff

I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. - Jack Horner

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

Good content should be at the heart of your strategy, but it is equally important to keep the display context of that content in mind as well. - Tim Frick

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe