Contact Quotes - Page 9

• She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.

  Anne Ursu

  Running, Eye, Grandmother

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• I have choices," I insisted, refusing to break eye contact. "We both do. I may have to make mine carefully, and make a few compromises along the way, but I have a choice. I choose you.

  Rachel Vincent

  Eye, Choices, May

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Blood Bound”, p.225, Harlequin

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• Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Bed, Might

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Blade”, p.120, Penguin

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• Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sports, Football, Shopping

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• The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

  Wendell Berry

  Differences, Perfect, Movement

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.12, Counterpoint

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• I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter

  Jeff Lindsay

  People, Fake, Everyday

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• Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life Is, Fascinated, Vibrate

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.122, Macmillan

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• However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Voice, Judging

  "The Will to Power".

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• I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Kids, Eye, Two

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by talking them through. Shutting myself away in the country, for instance, would do nothing for me. One depends on one's surroundings. And so the exchange with other artists - and especially the collaboration with Lueg and Polke - matters a lot to me: it is part of the input that I need.

  Gerhard Richter

  Country, Art, Mean

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

  Democritus

  Science, Differences, Atoms

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• Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Lying, Thinking

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• When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

  Rick Bass

  Eye, Views, People

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• 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.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Real, People, Mind

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• Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

  Ben Casnocha

  Men, Talking, Giving

  "My start-up life". Book by en Casnocha, abcnews.go.com. 2007.

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• We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

  Hannes Alfven

  Conjecture, Enterprise, Imaginary

  Hannes Alfvén, Gustaf Arrhenius (1976). “Evolution of the Solar System”

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• I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Ordinary, Rakes, Common

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• I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

  Simon Callow

  Theatre, Way, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Politics is a contact sport.

  Steve Chabot

  Sports, Contact Sports

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Dream, Car, World

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• Times have changed since 2002 when I won a spot in the group 'Popstars.' Back in the day we would get fan letters in the mail, now you can find anyone and contact people. It's incredible how fans can have a personal connection, share photos, stories.

  Josh Henderson

  Times Have Changed, People, Connections

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• Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

  Hu Jintao

  Office, Effort, Growth

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.

  Rob Kardashian

  Phones, Years, Numbers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Adults

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