The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
J. B. Priestley

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
Kim Hunter

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
Kenneth Miller

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
Thabo Mbeki

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
Jessamyn West

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack Obama

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
Ahmet Zappa

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Tony Robbins

The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.
Frank Luntz

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.
Raul Julia

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
Tom Wolfe

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.
John O'Toole

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.
Jason Schwartzman

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
Galen Rowell

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.
Thomas Keller

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Marcel Marceau

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
Hal Holbrook