Quotes About Interaction

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

Elfrida, are you about to cry? - I might be. - Why? - Relief. ?

the act of looking and being looked at.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would call on me sometimes in the evenings instead of running about London with his fellow-clerks; and before long, speaking of himself as a

That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would

for by the roadside trundled the very Wheel itself, eating, drinking, trading, marrying, and quarrelling—all warmly alive.

When I was a child grown-ups often told me to smile, which I found presumptuous of them. People still tell me that sometimes, mostly idiots at parties.

It struck her how often men made conversation by telling you things they thought you ought to know. Which was sometimes useful, except they rarely stopped to find out how much you knew already and sometimes they expected you to listen with wonder to total nonsense.

Time interacts with attention in funny ways.

email on his iPhone.

The first words of a book are of utmost importance. The moment of encounter, when a reader turns to that first page and reads those opening words, it's like locking eyes or touching someone's hand for the first time, and we feel it, too.

It was a completely innocent remark. To me, the subway is more than a quick way to get from one place to another. It is New York in miniature, an intimate glimpse of the city. You rub shoulders with everyone who lives here, find out what they're reading, see what they're wearing, eavesdrop on their conversations.

figure. She was with her more than the other occupants of the house. "You're beginning to get stout, Bertha," she said, using

I remembered reading in a hard-boiled detective novel that if you drink in the same place two nights in a row, the bartender and waiters will remember your face.

Cuando un hombre habla como un libro impreso, es aburrido escucharle, pero a menudo es muy útil hablar de este modo.

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

You may find this hard to believe, Mr. Pinter, she went on defensively, but some men enjoy my company. They consider me easy to talk to. A ghost of a smile touched his handsome face. You're right. I do find that hard to believe. Arrogant wretch. -Jackson and Celia

Our approach to QA is based on the belief that the balance between control and accountability on the one hand and quality enhancement on the other must be weighted towards the latter. Only if the QA process is perceived as bringing advantages to those who interact with it, will they contribute to it co-operatively and positively, and only in such circumstances will quality be enhanced.

Things—even people—have a way of leaking into each other," I explain, "like flavors when you cook.

The Hindustani storyteller always knows when he loses his audience, he said. Because the audience simply gets up and leave, or else it throws vegetables, or, if the audience is the king, it occasionally throws the storyteller headfirst off the city ramparts. And in this case, my dear Mogor-Uncle, the audience is indeed the king.

Maybe the little sahib is copying us—blinking when we blink." And Amina: "We'll blink in turn and watch.

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.