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"I can't decide if we're good people who are bad at communicating, or monsters who communicate perfectly."

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

'Bob, I know you're a Mockingbird, but a few compliments every now and then would greatly help your marriage...'

Dialogue

"I love it when you use your 'All Things Considered' voice."

'I'm majoring in communication and minoring in pizza delivery - What about you?'

She - Interpreter - He.

'Why don't you try seeing it from your point of view?'

Ruddy bloggers!

'The usual ‘nod, nod, wink, wink' will do, Walter. We don't need the eyebrow twitch and nostril flares.'

"Oh! It's you! I was expecting the machine."

"Hi, you've reached Susan's desk. I am monotasking right now, so I'll call you back it's the phone's turn again. Beep!"

Twitter censorship

"It probably got lost in the voice mail."

"I feel like I don’t even know my own husband ... and it’s driving me wild!"

'Your wife says you act like a fool. I thought you said she never pays attention to you.'

"When we first started seeing each other, we would always use the same word for snow."

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

"Miss Duxbury, put me through to someone."

Birds on a wire, "Bernie?...Oh he's gone cable!"

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

'We finally learned to communicate, and he's worse than I thought he was!

"My spokesperson won't speak to me."

The Love Psychologists