Subject: Communication (Page 69)

I will not go down in posterity talking bad grammar.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author
Communication Reading/Writing

Madness takes its toll; please have exact change.

Communication Language Proverbs

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator
Communication Speech

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

(1904 – 1963) American journalist
Beliefs Communication Facts Reading/Writing

My aunt used to say, ‘What you can’t see, can’t hurt you’… well, she died of radiation poisoning a few months back.

(1964 – ) English comedian, author & television presenter
Communication

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer
Conversation Men People Sex Women

There is no indigestion worse that that which comes from having to eat your own words.

Communication

I talk to myself a lot; that bothers some people because I use a megaphone.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Communication

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Communication Misspokements

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Communication Facts Language Science/Weather

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

(c. 620 – 564 BC) Greek slave and author of over 600 fables
Communication Speech

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and she can’t say 'No' in any of them.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Communication Insults Intelligence Sex

Flatterer: one who says things to your face that he wouldn’t say behind your back.

Characteristics Communication People Speech

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

(1951 – 2013) American professor & artificial intelligence expert
Communication Reading/Writing

You can get away with anything as long as you tell someone about it.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

English painter & sculptor Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?

Whistler’s reply: My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

(1834 – 1903) American-born, British-based artist
Communication Entertainment Insults

If that kid don't stop talkin' so much he'll get his tongue sunburned.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)
Speech TV/Movie Quotes

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Beliefs Communication

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Communication Speech

I once knew a woman who offered her honor, so I honored her offer, and all night long I was on her and off her.

Sex Wordplay

Out of the mouths of babes come things parents never should have said.

Children Communication Family Speech