Tom Lehrer Quotes

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

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

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

Talkin', talkin, talkin', talk. Baby, let's just knock it off. They don't know what we been through. They don't know 'bout me and you.

I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?" A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway." "While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Almost every week, someone's mad at me.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Grumbling is the death of love.

I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.