COMMUNICATION: QUOTATIONS

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures in
this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing
men together.
Antoine de Saint-Exupry
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall.
The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is
the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language
even when they speak the same language?
Language is an archeological vehicle the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of
human effort and history.
Russell Hoban
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more
exclusive and final than ones mothers womb.
Italo Calvino
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, youve got
to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as
autobiography. Use the wrong language, and youre dumb and blind.
Salman Rushdie
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by
men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our
fatherland and no other.
E.M. Cioran
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
Peggy Noonan
Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the
more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
J. B. Priestley
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another
room and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
Acting in English...I'm like a blind man. When you can't see, you develop other senses. In
one sense I am blind, but other faculties develop by way of compensation: the sense of
hearing, of morbid curiosity, of tolerance. These are the ways you communicate if you
don't speak the language.
Grard Depardieu