Contact Quotes - Page 6

• You can drive.” When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.

  Nalini Singh

  Eyebrows, Car, Wheels

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.733, Penguin

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• There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain, and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse that they seek. Sometimes, it is better to keep your eyes on the gutter for the fear that, by looking up, you might catch a glimpse of them, black shapes against the sun, and be blinded forever.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Eye, People

  John Connolly (2015). “The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Rachel Cohn

  Cities, Gone, Ambassadors

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.99, Egmont UK

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• It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Silence, Movement, Noise

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• How long can you keep me invisible?" "As long as were in physical contact." My throat felt dry. "Holding hands?" That's how we'd done it last time. "Unless you had something else in mind?

  Rachel Vincent

  Hands, Long, Mind

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• I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here.” Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet. Don’t make eye contact.” They all nodded.

  Lora Leigh

  Real, Eye, Mercury

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• The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

  David Sedaris

  Betrayal, Fake, Elements

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Together, Looks, Reassurance

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.212, Bantam

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• 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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• Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

  Hugh Hopper

  Giving, Musician, Assuming

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• It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Real, Experts, Bells

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• I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.

  Peter Piot

  Ebola, Long, Viruses

  "Ebola fears grow as experts say epidemic could spread to US, Europe and Asia remain on alert". www.news.com.au. July 31, 2014.

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• Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola

  Peter Piot

  Ebola, Gloves, Soap

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• The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

  Bruno Munari

  Art, Long, People

  Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process. It's not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you're tuned out, then you're not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Music, Mean, Focus

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• I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'.

  Roger Penrose

  Plato, Ideas, Mind

  Roger Penrose (1999). “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics”, p.554, OUP Oxford

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• We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Parent, Peers

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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