Quotes About Engagement

It takes a traveler, not a tourist, to search for something deeper. Travelers want to find the wavelength on which they and the city connect.

i wonder what they could possible have to say to each other. they're all so boring and they're all trying to make up for it by talking louder.

Must interests be interesting? That is, must they be interesting to someone other than yourself?

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks. And the reply comes instantly: For anything.

I don't know what good I could do. None of us does. That doesn't let us off the hook.

Kids don't give a shit about clipboards.

Conversation is not his strong suit. In fact, I'm not sure it's a suit he owns.

rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.)

In my mind, there are two kinds of looking. There's the kind of looking that is respectful, almost magical, where you observe something without daring to touch it. And then there's the kind of looking that's like slurping a Coke.

What a strange phrase - not seeing other people. As if it's been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

Everything--the section of comfortable chairs in the middle, the long colourful chains that dangled lights from the ceiling--seemed designed to make you feel like you were part of something larger, without actually being made to feel small.

living life instead of just thinking about it.

I don't remember what book it was - it almost doesn't matter, because the sensation of being read to is so much more powerful than any individual story.

I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

Tiny is trying his darnedest to start a musical conversation with Phil, but at first, Phil's not into it. Luckily, Tiny's persistent—like Angel in Rent, but without the cross-dressing and the specter of AIDS hovering over everything.

Ariel, look at me. Look at me. Look at me.

He hates surface talk. He wants to dive right through it. With anyone. Because anyone he talks to seems to have something worthwhile to say.

But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.

I must dive back into the festivities. I must swim within the conversations, swim from gift to gift, wish to wish. Some people swim to get somewhere. Others swim to stay in shape, or to get faster. Right now, I'm going to swim so I won't drown.

I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to her, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to her. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be.

Entertainment's chief job is to make you so riveted by it that you can't tear your eyes away, so the advertisers can advertise.

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

The audience wants to be piqued, to be misled, to be disappointed at times, so that it can, finally, be fulfilled. The audience therefore needs the second act to end with a question.

One hour of going to see things with your own eyes is more worthwhile than twenty hours of talking about things.