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Quotes About Interaction

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
~ Charles Dickens
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.
~ J. C. R. Licklider
If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.
~ Neil Strauss
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
~ Francis Bacon
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.
~ J. K. Rowling
A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.
~ Dale Carnegie
Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
~ Henry Drummond
If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
~ Alan Ayckbourn
The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.
~ Michael Douglas
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
~ Amy Winehouse
Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right
~ Joe Budden
Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
~ Neal Stephenson
Shut up. For the rest of this conversation, you don't say anything. When I tell you what you did wrong, you don't say you're sorry, because I already know you're sorry. And when you drive outta here alive, you don't thank me for being alive. And you don't even say goodbye to me.
~ Neal Stephenson
Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger's end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.
~ Neal Stephenson
Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes.
~ Neal Stephenson
This is a very odd conversation," Dappa observed. "On an arbitrary numerical scale of conversational oddness, ranging from one to ten, with ten being the oddest conversation I've ever had, and seven being the oddest conversation I have in a typical day, this rates no better than five," Daniel returned.
~ Neal Stephenson
To Randy the party is like any other: he shakes hands with a few people, forgets their names, finds a place to sit down, and enjoys the wine and the food in blissful solitude.
~ Neal Stephenson
In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient.
~ Neal Stephenson
Eventually the visitors were treated to a thoroughly non-ironic dinner at an Applebee's.
~ Neal Stephenson
In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient. The agent acts. The patient is passive.
~ Neal Stephenson
but the great thing about traveling with Pluto was that he only cared about you to the extent that you were interesting to him now. In that way he kept you on your toes. No aspect of the relationship could be counterfeited when it was being minted anew from moment to moment.
~ Neal Stephenson