Communication That Attempts Quotes

#1. Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action...Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention

Gerard Hauser

#2. The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Elvis Presley

#3. Like we had the event instead of just

Nora Roberts

#4. Language comes from what we've seen, touched, loved, lost. And it uses knowable things to give us glimpses of what's not.

Alena Graedon

#5. Caravaggio was constantly diverted by the human element during burglaries. Breaking into a house during Christmas, he would become annoyed if the Advent calendar had not been opened up to the date to which it should have been.

Michael Ondaatje

#6. The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

William Graham Sumner

#7. We may repeatedly try to get our need for sex or our need for communication met by our partner. If our attempts are met with rejection over and over again, we may eventually stop asking. We tend to give up rather than keep setting ourselves up for regular rejection.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#8. There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It's always heartbreaking.

Ethan Hawke

#9. Don't give away your power.

Ellen Hopkins

#10. Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Mark Twain

#11. My heart beats in three-quarter time.

Eric Kandel

#12. There's only one spot I want to be. Between her thighs and in her heart.

Eve Langlais

#13. Okay folks, what we have here is surely a never been seen before event. It looks like Satan herself has been called out by a - hey, how old is that walking corpse?

Jenn Cooksey

#14. Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

#15. There's a saying in High Egypt: The sky won't listen, so complain all you like.

Tanith Lee

#16. The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

Wilbur Smith

#17. God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail, He at last made a gift of Himself.

Henry Scougal

#18. There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

Humphry Davy

#19. They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl ... an aria of fear made audible.
The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.

Angela Carter