Communication Quotes

“I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.”

-- P. J. Harvey

“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”

-- Earl Wilson

“The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.”

-- Warren Rudman

“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”

-- John Drinkwater

“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

-- Joseph Priestley

“Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.”

-- John M. McHugh

“When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.”

-- Estee Lauder

“You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.”

-- Bruce Weber

“In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.”

-- William Bernbach

“People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.”

-- Lee Grant