Quotes About Engagement

You're different from other agency people," one client told her at the end of their first meeting, as he shook her hand to seal the deal. "You actually listen more than you talk.

He was comfortable in any social situation: garden party or cage fighting contest, it was all the same to Vid, it was all interesting.

It was interesting how you could say things when you were walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye contact across a table.

the way he could walk straight into a party full of people they didn't know and stick his hand out to a stranger and say, "I'm Nick. This is my wife, Alice." It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master.

It had felt like she was starting a new job: her job as a primary school mother. There would be rules and paperwork and procedures to learn.

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her

Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out?

And on she went about the room, serving food and compliments, fixing every guest with that strange piercing gaze of hers, so that by the time she finished and was ready to do her demonstration, everyone obediently swung their knees in her direction, their faces attentive, ready to be sold Tupperware, as if a firm but fair teacher had taken control of a rowdy classroom.

Why were cabdrivers so insistent on educating their passengers?

It was almost as though something interesting and unusual had happened to him and he'd forgotten to tell Cat about it until now.

Whoever was doing the crossword was halfway through

It is just too much effort to be funny and entertaining and loving. It is just too much effort to talk, really.

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

You should never ask actors about politics.

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.

I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.

I sensed him leaning forward. It's weird to feel someone's attention on you that way, like you're the only thing in the world they're listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they're going to say next.

Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I don't want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I know a place to go. You shoot pool? I'm Graves. Dru Anderson: I know. Dru. Graves: Dru. You're new. Couple of weeks, right? Welcome to Foley.

I am happy to see that more and more young people are once again taking up theatre.

Happiness is not in having being it is in doing.

I could not take my eyes off her. It was as if she were performing some trick, some sort of unfolding. There was something raw and exposed about her, as if many things had already happened between us, as if time had leapt ahead and we were already lovers.

Narrative is the way to communicate ideas. Philosophy just tastes bad to most people unless you wrap it up in a good story.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.