A Quote by John Cheever

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.

John Cheever

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John Cheever
American - Novelist
May 27, 1912 - June 18, 1982

Where my earlier works, what sets them apart is that I didn't need approval and I didn't need permission from anyone because I wasn't being paid. So, to me, I was allowed the freedom, the total freedom to just communicate how I wanted to communicate and my whole level of perspective was to communicate to the barrios, communicate to the gangs and communicate to the people that frequent the thoroughfares that were populated by these gangs and by this life style.

Willie Herron

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

Francine Pascal

I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.

Willie Herron

In this day and age, I ask anyone I date right away: 'Are you married? Are you in a relationship with anyone? Does anyone think they're in a relationship with you?' And by the way, if someone says, 'Yes, I am dating other people,' that's not necessarily a deal breaker. But you have to communicate it, not hide it.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

Niklas Luhmann

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

Rae Dawn Chong

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

Olivia Newton-John

He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.

Simone Signoret

travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

Peg Bracken

Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs.

Tony Robbins

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

Bernard Cornwell

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?

Stanislaw Lem

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Gerald Brenan

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

C. S. Lewis

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