Communication Avoidance Quotes

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

My husband spends the whole day in politics. I make it a point not to discuss politics with him when he comes home.

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.

I don't do e-mails.

We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.

I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

We never talked to each other in my family. We communicated by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

I don't do media training. I don't do that.

One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.

Sometimes sex is just a way to escape having to talk to that person.

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.