Quotes About Interaction

For maybe this is how poetry can be of use. Though it can't move with us, we can move it between us, pass it among us, so it is held up by our voices, so it moves with our breath, our living breath.

met him the day after,

slow down as if they're moving through liquid. I am becoming fascinated by her quality of attention. I'm starting to believe in what Barry Lopez has called 'the conversation of death', something he saw in the exchange of glances between caribou and hunting wolves, a wordless negotiation that ends up with them working out whether they will become hunter and hunted, or passers-by.

Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands. The wild can be human work.

Our exchanges always seem to turn into whatever he wants them to.

At that time I had to keep meeting people and meeting people in case one of them was someone I could marry.

It seemed that every time Miranda looked at Eliot he had some of that bread in his mouth—with Luc's champagne marmalade, or mackerel, or honey, or butter.

I wanted to ask her if she meant to spend the night here as well, but I didn't want her to say yes. It could be that she was in some kind of mood and just wanted a nap and my question might force her to adopt a stance. She does that, I've noticed; she lashes out when she thinks she's been given a cue.

Olivia made Mrs. Fletcher nervous. That was difficult to process. I'd recently come across a proverb about not speaking unless you'd thought of something better than silence. So I kept typing.

Instead of avoiding attention they invited it

Flirting is the act of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

central concern of interaction design is to develop interactive products that are usable. By this we mean products that are generally easy to learn, effective to use, and provide an enjoyable user experience.

Carmen, dear," I said, "I am not the kind of author who wants to be protected from her public. Any fan who phones might want to feed me, and I am totally available as a dinner guest. Just give out my address all over.

In London you shoo them away by talking to them. In New York talking to them would just get you their life stories

Feedback tells us how we are really being perceived, so if we are not getting it, we need to ask for it.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Next, think about likely questions or interruptions, and rehearse your responses. Then think of additional questions or interruptions, and how you would handle them.

The photon itself, the carrier of the electromagnetic interaction, is electrically neutral. That means all interactions among photons proceed through the mediation of other, electrically charged particles.

While the effective electrical charge of a proton decreases with distance, the strength of the effective color charge of a quark increases with distance.

Through centuries of centuries, fire and water face each other; the fire, upright, buoyant and leaping; the water flat, creeping, gliding, widening its lines and its surface. When they touch, is it the water which hisses and roars, or is it the fire?

Human contact wears things out with disheartening slowness.

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.