Contact Quotes - Page 18

• Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mean, Reality, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Beautiful, Real, Records

  Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (8 March 1929), in "Selected Letters II, 1925-1929" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (pp. 316-317), 1968.

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• [Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence

  Georg Brandes

  Lying, Ease, Vivid

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.57, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  People, Important, Peasants

  Sputnik: Digest, p. 48, 1967.

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• Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.

  Russell Baker

  Talking, People, May

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Eye, Long

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

  Georges Bataille

  Laughter, Emotional, Analysis

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.33, SUNY Press

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• The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.

  Meher Baba

  Mean, Special, Realization

  Meher Baba's message at Meherabad in Maharashtra, India, May 31, 1926.

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• The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. And in this work every one who can think may aid first by forming clear ideas himself, and then by endeavoring to arouse the thought of those with whom he comes in contact.

  Henry George

  Men, Thinking, Organization

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.

  Antonin Artaud

  Distance, Theatre, Danger

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• The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kids, Rocks, Guitar

  Song: Jungleland, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Father, People

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.

  Warren Farrell

  People, Loses

  "Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen Their Connection with God". Book by Jonathan Robinson, 1994.

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• Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Boys, Men

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• [It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Two, Facts, Well Known

  "Social Networks: A Developing Paradigm" by Samuel Leinhardt, (p. 350), 1977.

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• Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason. ... Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities ... one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind.

  William Harvey

  Men, Law, Long

  "The Works of William Harvey, M.D". Book by Robert Willis, "The Life of Harvey", 1847.

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• As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Class, Together, Fascination

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• Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

  John Brunner

  People, Television, World

  John Brunner (2014). “The Sheep Look Up”, p.230, Open Road Media

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• [Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love - and that it is a civil right.

  Jennifer Beals

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Goodbye to Romance" by Rachel Shatto, www.curvemag.com. December 29, 2009.

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• The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.

  Benjamin Graham

  Simple, Thinking, Egypt

  "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56, 1944.

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• I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I love tweeting. I tweet every day. I stay in contact, I tell them what I'm doing. I've posted pictures of my books on there and they buy the books. It's a very good way to communicate with people, but I can't go to bed without tweeting something. I have to tweet something.

  Carl Reiner

  Book, People, Way

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• That guy behind me on the airplane? He's been kicking my seat because he hates me. He's kicking my seat because he hates me and I'm gonna kill him. When we get off this plane, I'm gonna make eye contact. I'm gonna kill that guy. And all of that is just stuff in my head, but it's good to get rid of that stuff.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Airplane, Eye

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

  Charles Fort

  Octopus, Way, Stumps

  Charles Fort (2006). “Wild Talents”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It got to the point where I sat on the side of the bed in a hotel room in London in early-1990 and said to whoever or whatever: 'If you are there will you please contact or leave me because you are driving me up the wall.'

  David Icke

  Wall, Bed, London

  "About David Icke: The Man, His Philosophy, and His Work". Essay by David Icke,

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