Quotes About Engagement

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.

There's no point in retiring because there's no fun in retiring.

There is no point in appearing in just a few episodes. If I do a show on television, it won't be for a few episodes only.

There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up, you're going to have lost your impact and the audience is going to hate you for not allowing anyone to say anything.

If the script doesn't excite me, there's no point working on the music.

I got tired of soundchecks. At first it was important. But after a while, there was no point in me doing one.

In academics, it's getting your voice out that's important. It's getting somebody to listen to you. I had no problem with that. People were always curious about what I had to say.

I face no problem in communicating with the people of Orissa whom I meet everyday.

I said you could ask, Mr. Marsh. I didn't say that I would answer. -Lexie Darnell

Your kids don't watch a lot of television.

Why are things beautiful? I don´t know. That´s a good question. Isn´t it pleasing when you ask a question of a person, a teacher, or a speaker, and he or she says, That´s a good question? Don´t you feel good when that happens?

Reading is itself a state of artificially enhanced loneliness.

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time.

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing Both Sides Now with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

Read anything, as long as you can't wait to pick it up again.

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature.

it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on.

Clive was rapidly coming to the conclusion that being engaged to somebody meant that he spent an awful lot of time not doing things he wanted to do.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.