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Quotes About Contact

Contact with the skin of a dead animal made it possible to communicate with all other animal species. It was the lingua franca of metamorphosis.
~ Roberto Calasso
It turns out that a reciprocity strategy can work better; give visitors the info they want and then ask for their information. Italian researchers found that twice as many visitors gave up their contact data if they were able to access the information first. It
~ Roger Dooley
To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments, but rather with a new nature, that of human space: the Tower is not a trace, a souvenir, in short culture; but an immediate consumption of a humanity made natural by that glance which transforms it into space.
~ Roland Barthes
The gift is contact, sensuality: you will be touching what I have touched, a third skin unites us.
~ Roland Barthes
Neagley hated physical contact. No one knew why. But it was a recognized issue.
~ Lee Child
Every private thought is performed for public consumption, and every leisure moment (from toilet training to lovemaking) is a highly focused search for a specific gratification, guided by experts serving you in their field. No unexpected events or unanticipated human contact need apply.
~ Lee Siegel
As our lives have been flooded with novelty and change, they have become more hectic than ever before, at both home and work. We are barraged by a constant stream of information, and thanks to all of our screens and devices, we are in ceaseless contact with dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of other people, rarely (if ever) enjoying any complete downtime.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
On ignorance depends karma; on karma depends consciousness; on consciousness depend name and form; on name and form depend the five organs of sense; on the five organs of sense depends contact; on contact depends sensation; on sensation depends desire; on desire depends clutching; on clutching depends existence; on existence depends birth; on birth depend old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair. —The Buddha's twelvefold concatenation of cause and effect
~ Leonard Shlain
When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.
~ Deepak Chopra
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
~ Dick Butkus
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
~ Irwin Shaw
Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.
~ Heyneke Meyer
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
~ Erma Bombeck
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~ Vince Lombardi
Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.
~ Troy Vincent
I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.
~ Sherry Turkle
Der Hauptgrund für Stress ist der tägliche Kontakt mit Idioten.
~ Albert Einstein
The existence of the text is a silent existence, silent until the moment in which a reader reads it. Only when the able eye makes contact with the markings on the tablet does the text come to active life. All writing depends on the generosity of the reader.
~ Alberto Manguel
One touches and, in the act of touching, one's touched.
~ Aldous Huxley
The individual, he began in a soft and sadly philosophical tone, is not a self-supporting universe. There are times when he comes into contact with other individuals, when he is forced to take cognisance of the existence of other universes besides himself. He
~ Aldous Huxley
I hope you slept well, he said. Yes, isn't it lovely? Jenny replied, giving two rapid little nods. But we had such awful thunderstorms last week. Parallel straight lines, Denis reflected, meet only at infinity. He might talk for ever of care-charmer sleep and she of meteorology till the end of time. Did one ever establish contact with anyone? We are all parallel straight lines. Jenny was only a little more parallel than most. They
~ Aldous Huxley
Imagination seethes, excited, Once more its contact has ignited The blood within my withered heart, Once more I love, once more I smart!...
~ Alexander Pushkin
Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.
~ Duffy Daugherty
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~ Duffy Daugherty