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" Writing is the supreme solace. "

W. Somerset Maugham

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" When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" A different language is a different vision of life. "

Federico Fellini

" Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen. "

" The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding. "

" Fashion shows are really my way of communication. "

Dries van Noten

" The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed information source, which is invisible to everyone, where you can access anything, and it's distributed throughout the whole world. Basically, communication is instantaneous. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

" As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present. "

Alexander Kluge

" I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation. "

" Communication is different in the clubhouse than it is in a boardroom. The heartbeat that exists in the clubhouse, you don't find that same type of heartbeat in the front office. "

" Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them. "

" Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. "

John Drinkwater

" Writing only leads to more writing. "

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

" Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn't just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on. "

Justin Rosenstein

" If you work at a 10,000-person company, and you're using e-mail as the primary means of communication, then you probably have access to a couple hundredths of 1 percent of all the communications happening across the company. But if you use Slack, you might have access to 10 or 20 percent. "

Stewart Butterfield

" The press is the enemy. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. "

Rudyard Kipling

" My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture. "

" A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. "

" Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place. "

John Paul DeJoria

" Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico's leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships. "

" Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is. "

" To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. "

" Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. "

Benjamin Banneker

" Online, you're providing each other with the good aspects of being together as far as communication and support, but you don't have to deal with the realities of paying bills together, or being annoyed when they leave the toilet seat up or don't put the food away in the fridge. "

" Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful. "

Don Miguel Ruiz

" Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. "

" One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else. "

" I do have a big problem with the idea of music as a form of communication unless it's political - and that's where it's tricky because a lot of music is political, even if it's not overtly so. But my music isn't that; it's about a feeling. "