It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
William Bernbach

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
Gore Vidal

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
Nancy Reagan

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Roald Dahl

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Babe Ruth

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
Dick Cavett

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
George MacDonald

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
Jackie Chan

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
Larry David

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
John Madden

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
Spike Lee

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.
Shia LaBeouf

The longer you work here, diverse it gets.
Scott Adams

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
James Carville

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Cesar Chavez

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
Charles Barkley

In any profession it gets to be a grind.
Denzel Washington