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Communication Quotes
Get your point across with one of these great quotes. Click on any communication quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"A little less conversation, a little more action please."Source: A Little Less Conversation | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"And she shaved his head, and his strength went from him."Source: Judges 16:17, 19 | Author: Author of Judges
"And that's how you play "Get the Guests.""Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Speaker: George
"And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."Source: Genesis 3:3 | Speaker: Eve
"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."Source: Catch-22 | Author: Joseph Heller
"Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"Source: Reservoir Dogs | Speaker: Mr. Blonde
"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."Source: Inauguration Address, January 20, 1961 | Speaker: John F. Kennedy
"Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun."Source: Digging | Author: Seamus Heaney
"But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it."Source: Introduction to Poetry | Author: Billy Collins
"But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore."Source: Slaughterhouse-Five | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."Source: Henry Ford's Marketing Team | Speaker: Henry Ford
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000
"First rule of Fight Club is... you do not talk about Fight Club."Source: Fight Club | Speaker: Tyler Durden
"He ain't mean," said Slim. "I can tell a mean guy from a mile off."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."Source: The Remarkable Rocket | Author: Oscar Wilde
"I do not like them in a box. I do not like them with a fox."Source: Green Eggs and Ham | Author: Dr. Seuss
"I said you wanna be startin' somethin', you gotta be startin' something."Source: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" | Speaker: Michael Jackson
"I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys."Source: A Supermarket in California | Author: Allen Ginsberg
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?Source: I'm Nobody! Who are you? | Author: Emily Dickinson
Are you — Nobody — too?"
"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature."Source: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians | Author: Paul of Tarsus
"If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."Source: Rabbit, Run | Author: John Updike
"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."Source: Matthew 28:19 | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels."Source: Mrs. Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf
"It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring."Source: Matthew 16:2-3 | Author: Matthew
"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."Source: Matthew 15:14 | Author: Matthew
"Life is pain. Anybody that says different is selling something."Source: The Princess Bride | Author: William Goldman
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography | Author: Booker T. Washington
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"Source: Tell all the truth but tell it slant— | Author: Emily Dickinson
"That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."Source: What is Called Thinking? | Author: Martin Heidegger
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."Source: The Importance of Being Earnest | Author: Oscar Wilde
"There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."Source: Strength to Love | Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson
"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Words can be like X-Rays if you use them properly – they'll go through anything."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."Source: No Country for Old Men | Author: Cormac McCarthy