Penny Marshall Quotes

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

I don't email.

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. 'How are you' is a greeting, not a question.

Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.

I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.

I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don't want to get caked, shake your head or tell me you don't want to get caked. It's that easy.

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.

Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the talking box?

What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

I don't go out of my way to be friendly, because it's completely unnecessary. People tell you what they are going to tell you no matter what.

I find texting to be kind of a safe space.