Quotes About Interaction

Le auto sono come le persone. Ogni giorno andiamo in giro in mezzo alla ressa, corriamo di qua e di là, arrivando quasi a toccarci ma in realtà c'è pochissimo contatto. Tutti quegli scontri mancati. Tutte quelle opportunità perse. E' inquietante, a pensarci bene. Forse è meglio non pensarci affatto

Os carros são como as pessoas. Movemo-nos em círculos todos os dias, corremos daqui para ali, passamos a centímetros uns dos outros, mas há muito pouco contacto real. Tantos desencontros. Tantos «podia ter sido». É assustador, quando pensamos nisso. Provavelmente, o melhor é não pensar.

This is great,' said Terry. 'This is so much better than sitting in my room watching Written on the Wind.

She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not.

She didn't need to see more people, she took money from hundreds of people at the bakery, men who stared at her indecently, old women who tweezed coins from cloth pouches as if picking a nose with thumb and finger.

That everything in the society actually revolves about women, not men. The men are all looking at pictures of women, and the women are all communicating with other women.

what do you do all day?" "Actually, FYI," his mother said, "that can be a somewhat awkward question to ask a person.

Hell-o-oh," she called with the silly lilt with which she and Tom announced arrivals. "Hello," Tom called from the living room, without the lilt.

She noted with pleasure that he'd already dispensed with a salutation

When he happened to look at Marion directly, it was often to ask, "Where's your sister?

La calidad de una cena la determinan las conversaciones secundarias que la mayoría de la mesa no oye.

To tugboat was to try Minna's patience. Any time you pushed your luck, said too much, overstayed a welcome, or overestimated the usefulness of a given method or approach, you were guilty of having tugged the boat. Tugboating was most of all a dysfunction of wits and storytellers, and a universal one. Anybody who thought himself funny would likely tug a boat here or there. Knowing when a joke or verbal gambit was right at its limit, quitting before the boat had been tugged, that was art.

Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

nu ne acorda nici o atentie si n-a intrebat nici macar o data despre ce discutam. Era sociabil doar cu alunele.

Me encuentro entre el 95 por ciento de propietarios varones de perros que les habla (aunque no en el 87 por ciento que cree que su perro le contesta).

Punch with your mouth and talk with your feet.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

Tata krama adalah seni untuk membuat orang merasa tidak canggung bercakap-cakap dengan kita.

nas relações vulgares da vida, parecem estúpidos, mazombos, enfadonhos, malcriados.

Peter suspects that the caltrop is evolving in response to the finches. Where the struggle for existence is fierce, the caltrop that is likeliest to succeed is the plant that puts more energy into spines and less into seeds; but in the safer, more secluded spot, the fittest plants are the ones that put more energy into making seeds and less energy into protecting them. The finches may be driving the evolution of caltrop while caltrop is driving the evolution of the finches.