Quotes About Interaction

What are you doing, Dave?

I said nothing about men adapting themselves to Mars. Have you ever considered the possibility of Mars meeting us half-way?

Martin's one of the nicest fellows you could meet, as long as you don't do it too often.

Hello, Dave," said Hal presently. "Have you found the trouble?" This

There are some women who appear sincerely unaware of the fact that they cannot stop talking, and are most surprised when anyone accuses them of monopolising the conversation.

Few artists thrive in solitude, and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

I HEAR YOU, FRANK. THIS IS DAVE.

With the historic abolition of long-distance charges on 31 December 2000, every telephone call became a local one, and the human race greeted the new millennium by transforming itself into one huge, gossiping family. Like

a gentle tickling on Floyd's wrist announced an incoming call.

As soon as anyone on Earth could see and talk to anyone else by pressing a button, most of the need for cities vanished.

The main thing with people of that sort is never to let them think that their information can be of the slightest importance to you. If you do, they will instantly shut up like an oyster. If you listen to them under protest, as it were, you are very likely to get what you want.

My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.

Watson: Get that out of my face. Sherlock: It's not in your face, it's in my hand. Watson: Get what's in your hand out of my face.

To my surprise, the young lady held up her gloved hand to detain me. If your friend, she said, would be good enough to stop, he might be of inestimable service to me.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

Confío en no ser más torpe que mis semejantes, pero siempre me oprimía una sensación de estupidez al tratar con Sherlock Holmes.

I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.

I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and over because that way they can get along together without thinking. She stopped and thought. Why I was so worried," she said, "was because if people didn't say those damn things over and over, then they wouldn't talk to each other at all.

It was not pleasant sitting on the porch after Tony had gone; a spot where two people have been talking, however briefly, is not after that a spot for one person to sit alone.

I dislike all the beginnings of conversations where people ask one another as subtly as possible how old they are, and what their names are, and how they are feeling these days.

When Mrs. Ferrier stepped inside our front door at one minute before three that afternoon it was perfectly clear to me without hesitation that we were not going to become fast friends.

I'll tell them,' she said, and the baby looked at me cynically.

I have decided to ask you to please go away." "All right," he said. "You asked me." "Please will you go away?" "No," he said. I could not think of anything further to say.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.