Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

Communication is not to be confused with communications, Ed Murrow would say.

Every word that falls from the mouth is a coin lost. Silently. They gave and accepted food with both hands.

It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.

Good communication is stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.