Quotes About Engagement

Each time we saw her, she expressed dissatisfaction with her job because she was a people person and wanted to do something that involved more human interaction.

For most people, most of the time, the media are little more than a background hum. . .

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Whose book is it anyway? The hardest thing a writer has to learn is that once you publish a book, it's no longer truly yours – even though it's got your name on the front and it lives inside you. It belongs to the readers now. All you can do is steel yourself as you push it out into the world, stay gracious, and get busy with the next one.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me." "So when's the wedding?" Ramsey asked.

Mr. Leszczynski attended class faithfully, arriving on time, and rarely succumbed to the undergraduate impulse to check his cell phone for messages or relentlessly zip and unzip his backpack in the final minutes of class.

There is no way to teach someone, I thought, who doesn't like or respect you enough to learn.

Chapter breaks are not so readers have a place to stop reading; they're the breath to take before the roller coaster plummets down the hill

Tant de mains pour transformer ce monde, et si peu de regards pour le contempler.

Hysteria involves a relationship — one cannot be a hysteric on one's own. It always engages the other, inducing a reciprocity or a refusal. If the other refuses to participate in the free flow of mutual identification (the folie a deux), then the hysteric demands to be a spectacle only something one can look at or observe.

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don't want to write anything but takes.

Por lo que me toca, me pregunto si alguna vez conseguiré hacer sentir que el verdadero y único personaje que me interesa es el lector, en la medida en que algo de lo que escribo debería contribuir a mutarlo, a desplazarlo, a extrañarlo, a enajenarlo.

Cuando abra la puerta y me asome a la escalera, sabré que abajo empieza la calle; no el molde ya aceptado, no las casas ya sabidas, no el hotel de enfrente: la calle, la viva magnolia, donde las caras van a nacer cuando las mire, cuando avance un poco más, cuando con los codos y las pestañas y las uñas me rompa minuciosamente contra la pasta del ladrillo de cristal, y juegue mi vida mientras avanzo paso a paso para ir a comprar el diario de la esquina

Me dolía un poco no estar del todo en el juego, mirar a eea gente desde fuera, a lo entomólogo.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

Said books were more interesting than people.

How wonderful, to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, borne away on words. And

Then suddenly, bizarrely, the other man – the one in the dark leather jacket – grinned like an amused schoolboy. 'Hel o,' he said brightly.

We can choice to cower at the river's edge, watching as life sails past us, always the bystander, never the participant. We can shade our eyes and fret about all the untold dangers below the surface. We can play and replay all the warnings we've ever heard. Or. Or we can equip ourselves with what we need to survive

All the male faces in the room turned to me as if they were flowers and I the sun.

but his main influence came from his continuous and intense presence, which produced a sense of direct participation in all of us.

the Gita celebrates a life of action and engagement with the world. As such, it was compatible with Oppenheimer's Ethical Culture upbringing; but there also were important differences. The Gita's notions of karma, destiny and earthly duty would seem to be at odds with the humanitarianism of the Ethical Culture Society.