Miriam Margolyes Quotes

Communication is important.

My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

New Yorkers seem to think the best thing two people can do is talk.

Communication is the channel through which life is conveyed, through which ideas and the energy behind them are transmitted, and through which the mind, body, and spirit are merged into a force for right action.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

I'm a big believer in communication.

The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

Communication is so key.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.

How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.