Contact Quotes - Page 14

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

Brad Meltzer

Eye, President, Eras

Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.109, Hachette UK

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The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

B. F. Skinner

Real, Book, Men

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I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.

Michael Rady

Bridges, People, Connections

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Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

Maturin Murray Ballou

Book, Brain, Sparks

Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Buzz Bissinger

Wife, Felt, Ifs

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Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Iraq, Effort, Collaboration

"Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

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But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

Karl Lehmann

Political, Church, Danger

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There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

William Cecil Dampier

Knowledge, Science, Research

William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham M.A., F.R.S. (1931). “A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion”

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My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack.

Ray Bergman

Husband, Lakes, Sea

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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

Ambrose Bierce

Science, Blue, Two

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

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Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m., minimal human contact. That's living the dream.

Mat Johnson

Dream, Country, Sleep

"'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you've gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can't separate what's genuine from what is necessary.

Robert Reich

People, Inspiring Love, Energy

"American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Nicolas Chamfort

Temptation, Armor, Obscurity

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If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.

Bill Gates

Hair, Lenses, Asking

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The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.

Arthur Koestler

Book, Epidemics, Air

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New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

Robert Orben

Cities, New Yorkers, Ifs

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When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Heart, Electric Shock, Purpose

Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1018, Delphi Classics

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I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.

Vincent Van Gogh

Believe, Thinking, Looks

H. R. Graetz, Vincent van Gogh (1963). “The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh”, London, Hudson

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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Henri Bergson

Reality, Soul, Realism

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Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.

Thomas Sowell

Men, Hands, Availability

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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

Barbra Streisand

Interesting, Humanity, Trust Yourself

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It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

Ingmar Bergman

Cutting, Touching, Humanity

Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.

Paul Cezanne

Nature, Eye, Order

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To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.

Paul Cezanne

Eye, Progress, Achieve

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There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

John Cleese

Animal, Stills, Where We Came

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