“Dogs can never speak the language of humans, and humans can never speak the language of dogs. But many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail c…”— Dodie Smith, amazon.com
“Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.”— Ina May Gaskin, amazon.com
“There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.”— Andre Agassi, amazon.com
“Although letters seem to facilitate communication and proximity, they produce instead a distance in which writers find the chance to become writers.”— Vincent Kaufmann, amazon.com
“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”— A.A. Milne, amazon.com
“Often, when you’re out in the single world meeting people, you meet someone you like, get their number, and put it right in your phone, transforming them into an ‘option’ that lives in your device. Sometimes you and that option engage in some phone-based interaction and you meet up in person. But so…”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“Online, we don’t have access to social cues. There’s no one on the receiving end of our jabs and tirades and vitriol. All we see are words on a screen in a text box. Empathy is null and void. Sometimes, I write things down that I think and feel and post them on the internet. Maybe you like to cook f…”— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, medium.com
“She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouth filled with words that have died on my lips.”— Emily Palermo, starredsoul.tumblr.com
“So what I’m trying to say is you should text me back. Because there’s a precedent. Because there’s an urgency. Because there’s a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and if you don’t respond soon, I won’t know if you’d wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”— Marina Keegan, amazon.com
“In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about. That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness. That’s just not knowing what you’re talking about.”— Barack Obama, vox.com
“I want to speak sunlight but I can only speak thunderstorms that make people run away from me.”— Alexa Evangelista, krowkadile.tumblr.com
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”— Carl Gustav Jung, amazon.com
“I thought you understood me, but it was just me misunderstanding you.”— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.com
“The only things that work are having a clear point of view and knowing how to get your message across to the country so that the people support and understand your mission. This way we’re not divided, and special interest groups cannot buy the outcomes they want and rip us apart.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com