Communication That Attempts Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Humphry Davy

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Tanith Lee

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Eve Langlais

#10. 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

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

Eric Kandel

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

Mark Twain

#13. Don't give away your power.

Ellen Hopkins

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Like we had the event instead of just

Nora Roberts