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Quotes About Interaction

I would suggest that true literacy—the kind that matters—brings about clearer thinking and informed action. Thus, true biblical literacy involves an interaction with the Bible that changes the way one thinks and acts, and that kind of interaction takes time.
~ George H. Guthrie
I drink to make other people interesting." or "I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
~ George Jean Nathan
We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.
~ George Lakoff
They watched each other at times as a cat would watch a mouse, playfully but seriously. The inspector smiled and the teacher smiled back, and the cat in each smiled too.
~ George Lamming
Remember: If you go for a walk with a friend in England, don't say a single word for hours; if you go for a walk with your dog, talk to it all the time.
~ George Mikes
A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
~ George Mikes
If he stretches out his hand in order to shake yours, you must not accept it. Smile vaguely, and as soon as he gives up the hope of shaking you by the hand, you stretch out your own hand and try to catch his in vain. This game is repeated until the greater part of the afternoon or evening has elapsed. It is extremely likely that this will be the most amusing part of the afternoon or evening, anyway.
~ George Mikes
We are pressed, pressed on each other,We will be told at onceOf anything that happens
~ George Oppen
Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
~ George Pratt Shultz
You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.
~ George R.R. Martin
You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.
~ George R.R. Martin
An old woman selling piglets from a basket stopped to stare at him, a knight with a half-familiar face went to one knee, and two men-at-arms pissing in a ditch turned and sprayed each other.
~ George R.R. Martin
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
~ George Raveling
At the same time there seemed to be more white people on the streets of Harlem than at any time in the past twenty years. Many of them appeared to be on the most intimate terms with the Negroes, laughing, talking, dining and dancing in a most un-Caucasian way. This sort of association had always gone on at night but seldom in the daylight.
~ George S. Schuyler
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
~ George Sanders
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.
~ George Saunders
Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
~ George Takei
Despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.
~ Georges Perec
From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.
~ Georges Perec
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
~ Gerald Brenan
Yes, there's a lot I have learned about flowers. They're just like people. Put too many together and they get on each other's nerves and start to wilt. Mix some kinds and you get what appears to be a dreadful form of class distinction.
~ Gerald Durrell
Breakfast was, on the whole, a leisurely and silent meal, for no member of the family was very talkative at that hour. By the end of the meal the influence of the coffee, toast, and eggs made itself felt, and we started to revive, to tell each other what we intended to do, why we intended to do it, and then argue earnestly as to whether each had made a wise decision.
~ Gerald Durrell
I want to reemphasize that we're not dealing with water at the molecular level; we're dealing with crowds of water molecules. We don't yet understand water molecules
~ Gerald H. Pollack
A culture is kept alive by the interaction of all its parts.
~ Gerald Holton