Contact Quotes

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books

He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.

The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

Calculus destroys self-esteem on contact.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á … whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas

It is always a most delightful moment for me when people contact me via mail or approach me at game fairs and thank me for the many enjoyable hours I have brought them with my games.

There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.

I think I'm someone who is pretty happy with themselves and pretty content where they are in life. I want to share my happiness and hopefully enrich people's lives that I come into contact with.

You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

The contact of two epidermises.

Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.

There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

That's pretty hot," he said. "Punching me in the eye?" "Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports." "I'm sure you are.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".

Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple.

My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact.

I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

I've had contact with Arsenal and Chelsea, but it's a bit of a mess.

Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

The fact that people have hijacked it is certainly not something that fills me with great joy. We have to find new ways of addressing people, new ways of getting into contact with people.

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

We agreed that our economic and financial teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring economic growth and financial stability.