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Quotes About Interaction

As she was being pulled away, she caught one last glimpse of Barnaby. As if he sensed her location, he looked up and their eyes met briefly. A smile flickered there in his expression, then he turned back to his conversation. Whatever he said caused the cluster to laugh riotously, one gentleman slapped him on the back.
~ Judith O'Brien
The door handle is the handshake of the building.
~ Juhani Pallasmaa
The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory.
~ Juhani Pallasmaa
Our bodies and movements are in constant interaction with the environment; the world and the self inform and redefine each other constantly. The percept of the body and the image of the world turn into one single continuous existential experience; there is no body separate from its domicile in space, and there is no space unrelated to the unconscious image of the perceiving self.
~ Juhani Pallasmaa
Bir sanat eseri, bilinçsiz olarak söyle?ilen bir ba?ka ki?i i?levi görür.
~ Juhani Pallasmaa
Menschen brauchen einen Vorwand, um sich miteinander beschäftigen zu können.
~ Juli Zeh
It's quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your lungs, you raise your soft palate, air passes over your vocal cords, and you move your lips and tongue. Or, to put it another way, you speak.
~ Juli Zeh
When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.
~ Julia Glass
to contradict him. "You know how she is
~ Julia London
Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
No. Haven't you been listening?" Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.
~ Julia Quinn
I'm leaving!" she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve. But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, "I'm following." And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the entire way home.
~ Julia Quinn
Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.
~ Julia Quinn
You are always looking at people like this." And then she made a face, one he couldn't possibly begin to describe. "If I ever look like that," he said dryly, "precisely like that, to be more precise, I give you leave to shoot me.
~ Julia Quinn
Caroline stamped her foot in frustration, but when it landed, it landed on something considerably less flat than the floor. "Owww!" he yelled. Oh! His foot!Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry , she mouthed.I didn't mean it. "If you think I can understand that," he growled, "you're crazier than I'd originally thought.
~ Julia Quinn
She glared at him. "I'm not asking you to apologize." "Well, that's a relief.I doubt I could find the words.
~ Julia Quinn
That was very rude of me." "Think nothing of it. You've done worse.
~ Julia Quinn
There," she said triumphantly. "Like that." He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. "Like what?" "That! What you just said." He crossed his arms. It seemed the only acceptable reply. If she couldn't speak in complete sentences, he saw no reason why he had to speak at all.
~ Julia Quinn
This was killing her. She had to break the silence. This was not natural. It was too awful. People were meant to talk.
~ Julia Quinn
Alex finally turned around and noticed that there were three women in the room. He quickly swept his eyes over them, taking in their comfortable position. As his gaze settled on Emma, she lifted her teacup to her lips and took a sip. "My, my," he drawled, "aren't we the best of friends?" All three women shot him irritated glances. Alex looked a trifle disgruntled at their collective unfavorable response to his presence.
~ Julia Quinn
I wanted to skewer her with a stare, flay her with a frown, impale her with a—I say, what are you doing?" Charles would have answered her, but he was laughing so hard he was doubled over.
~ Julia Quinn
Our world is filled with meaningless conversations. It is an honour to participate in one that is not.
~ Julia Quinn
On the way over, however, it slid off the shovel and onto Henry's shoes. Pity, that. She whirled around. He waited for her to burst out with, "You did that on purpose!" but she kept silent, motionless except for a slight narrowing of her eyes. Then, with a flick of her ankle, the slop spattered onto his trousers. She smirked, waiting for him to say, "You did that on purpose!" but he also remained silent. Then he smiled at her, and she knew she was in trouble.
~ Julia Quinn
I hope you will save me a dance.' 'Of course,' she said ... The other two ladies stood there, utterly still, eyes large and unblinking. It brought to mind a pair of ostriches, actually, and then Marcus realized what was expected of him. 'I hope you will all three save dances for me,' he said politely.
~ Julia Quinn