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Quotes About Interaction

Nothing ruined working with animals like the need to work with people at the same time.
~ Ellen Datlow
Mothers, [fathers, and other caregivers] who are attentive to their children's gestures have children who pick up words a little faster.
~ Ellen Galinsky
Great, another fan! Hello there! Want to pat me?
~ Ellen Miles
you again! I knew you'd come back. I've been so bored. Is it time to play again?
~ Ellen Miles
Computers have no idea what goes on outside of them except what humans tell them.
~ Ellen Ullman
the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.
~ Ellen Wittlinger
Let's go, then," Ellery said, stopping a sigh. "Shall we go?" the Superintendent asked promptly. And after a few silent moments of walking he said, "That is the communal dining hall." "I know, Superintendent. I ate there this morning. And yesterday. And the day before." The man looked at him glassily. "It is where the community eats," he said. "Ah," said Ellery. "Thank you." What was the use?
~ Ellery Queen
Freddie is here' Gabriel said 'Lazy sod
~ Eloisa James
He put his feet down into the little puddle she'd chosen. They were huge next to hers, and they both stared for a moment. Then he moved in one smooth motion to her rock. // "What are you doing?" she gasped, just like the heroine in a bad play.
~ Eloisa James
I was thinking the other day that his life reminds me of throwing a piece of bread into a stream and watching a whole flock of little minnows come up and start nibbling at it.
~ Eloisa James
She gave a little scream. "You oughtn't to creep up on a person!" He smiled down at her. "You'll have to get used to me following you out of rooms. If you are determined to be exasperated with me, and I am determined to be with you, I shall probably become very familiar with your defiant back leading the way to a door." That was so foolish that she found herself nearly smiling.
~ Eloisa James
I'm Eminem's AA sponsor. Whenever I ring to check in on him, he always greets me the same way: 'Hello, you cunt', which I guess is very Eminem.
~ Elton John
Hablo de libros siempre, todos los días, en la comida, por correo, por teléfono, por skype, por chat, por facebook.
~ Elvira Lindo
Even in the mid-1990s geeks were fair game. One afternoon a colleague and I were standing on either side of one of the narrow aisles between the banks of trading desks on the floor when one of the chief traders walked between us, his head momentarily between ours. At that instant he winced, clutched his head with both hands as though in excruciating pain, and exclaimed, "Aarrggh-hhh! The force field! It's too intense! Let me out of the way!
~ Emanuel Derman
Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.
~ Emerson Hough
Cu cît oamenii te intereseazå mai putin, cu atît devii mai timid în fata lor, iar cînd ajungi sa-i dispretuiesti, începi sa te bîlbîi.
~ Emil Cioran
Education is a social thing; that is to say, it brings the child into contact with a definite society and not with society in general.
~ Émile Durkheim
The persistence of this imagery calls to mind what Ludwik Fleck termed 'the self-contained' nature of scientific thought. As he described it, 'the interaction between what is already known, what remains to be learned, and those who are to apprehend it, go to ensure harmony within the system. But at the same time they also preserve the harmony of illusions, which is quite secure within the confines of a given thought style.
~ Emily Martin
The inexorable box which keeps its mouth open to all comers receives its epistolary provender from all hands.
~ balzac honore de v
Between persons who are perpetually in each other's company dislike or love increases daily; every moment brings reasons to love or hate each other more and more.
~ balzac honore de xix
In the provinces there is always a valve or a faucet through which gossip leaks from one social set to another.
~ balzac honore de xv
To write a letter, and to have it posted; to get an answer, to read it and burn it; there we have correspondence stated in the simplest terms.
~ balzac honore de xvi
It is with kisses as with confidences, the first leads to another. They are multiplied, they interrupt conversation, they take its place; they scarce leave time for a sigh to escape.
~ balzac honore de xxi
In every case we receive only in proportion to what we give.
~ balzac honore de xxiv