Paul Simon Quotes

I hate when I see someone who speaks English speaking to someone who speaks a different language, and they're screaming as if going louder is going to help the other person understand.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

No, communication is terrible!

If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.

I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

I don't know what the word is in Austrian.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Words are useless, especially sentences.

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

The message sent is not always the message received.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

I'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.