As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

What does music mean to me? I don’t think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It’s my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely‘ when you mean ‘very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Extremists think ‘communication’ means agreeing with them.

Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

I think that there’s etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don’t think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a “thank you” note instead of a hand-written card.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

There should be no “means of communication” which “we cannot read“.

Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist‘s drill.

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

Painting is an extension of man’s means of communication. As such, it’s pure, difficult, and wonderful.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication – and setting a poor one is disastrous!

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn’t about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

A book … unlike a television program, moving picture or any other ‘modern means of communication’ … can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart.

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.