Howard Dean Quotes

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but you haven't got that problem with this because whatever you're going to do, whether it's good or bad, will get picked up. So, in that way I guess it's pure cinema.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.