Communication Purpose Quotes

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

People only speak to get something.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?