Quotes About Interaction

I'm happy to talk to anybody but do it in the right manner.

I wouldn't dream of giving any human being marks out of 10 on two hours' acquaintance.

You have to be very careful when you speak French around Kris Marshall.

The rule was: Lose your temper, lose a customer. She had just proved that rule. It troubled her to realise how very enjoyable it had been.

Oh, hello, Howl," Michael said helplessly.

You know the way they have mouths that don't seem to smile in the same way as normal people's.

They spend their whole lives yelling at the world and each other. They yell at their loved ones, they yell at their enemies, they yell at their dinner, they yell at the big bustling world.

Talking to Clarence can be like talking to a child, although it is much more charming in children.

Your email greetings should warm readers up—not put them off.

I'm done talking to you for today, my chips are worn out. ~Roc

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

You and I. We're here. So might as well.

I want to eat lunch. You want to eat lunch. We're people in the world. We need to eat and talk.

A film can be undermined by the person you're seeing it with, there in the dark, a ripple effect of attitude, scene by scene, shot by shot.

I think we ought to have our intercourse now.

Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows.

It is time to "perform," he thought. She would have to be "satisfied." He would have to "service" her. They would make efforts to "interact.

He had a good vocabulary except when he was talking to someone.

There was another pause. We waited to learn if the dialogue was over. Then we set to eating again. We traded unwanted parts in silence, stuck our hands in cartoons of rippled fries. Wilder liked the soft white fries and people picked these out and gave them to him. Denise distributed ketchup in little watery pouches. The interior of the car smelled of grease and licked flesh. We traded parts and gnawed.

Vernon liked to hang around outside the house, waiting for garbagemen, telephone repairmen, the mail carrier, the afternoon news-boy. Someone to talk to about techniques and procedures. Sets of special methods. Routes, time spans, equipment. It tightened his grip on things, learning how work was done in areas outside his range.

When the phone rang she did not look at it the way they do in the movies. Real people don't look at ringing phones.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Once again, the designer should assume that people will be interrupted during their activities and that they may need assistance in resuming their operations.

Design is concerned with how things work, how they are controlled, and the nature of the interaction between people and technology.