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Quotes About Contact

Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.
~ James Joyce
The Jedi thought of the cellular organelles as symbionts, but to Plagueis midi-chlorians were interlopers, running interference for the Force and standing in the way of a being's ability to contact the Force directly.
~ James Luceno
I'd like to talk to him, too. Name is Sid
~ James Patterson
Jacobi called Lindsay on his Nextel.
~ James Patterson
He punched in Acadia's number. When it went to voice mail, he said
~ James Patterson
Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.
~ Nick Frost
The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily and regularly infiltrated by radical groups, who use them as forums to propagate their ideas.
~ Maajid Nawaz
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
~ Elias Canetti
Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.
~ Klaus Fuchs
For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.
~ Thomas Huxley
It's no secret that I enjoyed the physical side when I was a player. I was a bumps-and-bruises man.
~ Mark Hughes
I'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact.
~ Shirley Manson
North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.
~ Lu Guanqiu
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
~ John Muir
If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.
~ Orhan Pamuk
connected with an electric wire
~ Orison Swett Marden
Keep careful track of any contacts you do have. We're still uncertain of the mode of transmission, but most myxoviruses spread by droplet and direct contact. Wash your hands with soap and water frequently.
~ Connie Willis
Like life, racial understanding is not something that we find but something that we must create. And so the ability of Negroes and whites to work together, to understand each other, will not be found readymade; it must be created by the fact of contact.
~ Coretta Scott King
They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
~ D.H. Lawrence
She did not understand the beauty he found in her, through touch upon her living secret body, almost the ecstasy of beauty. For passion alone is awake to it. And when passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable; warm, live beauty of contact, so much deeper than the beauty of vision.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Connie went for walks in the park, and in the woods that joined the park, and enjoyed the solitude and the mystery, kicked the brown leaves of autumn, and picked the primroses of spring. But it was all a dream; or rather it was like the simulacrum of reality. The oak leaves were to her like oak-leaves seen ruffling in a mirror, she herself was a figure somebody had read about, picking primroses that were only shadows or memories, or words. No substance to her or anything...no touch, no contact!
~ D.H. Lawrence
Time went on. Whatever happened, nothing happened, because she was so beautifully out of contact . . . Time went on as the clock does, half-past eight instead of half-past seven.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Time went on. Whatever happened, nothing happened, because she was so beautifully out of contact.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Still he was ambitious. He had taken to writing stories; curious, very personal stories about people he had known. Clever, rather spiteful, and yet, in some mysterious way, meaningless. The observation was extraordinary and peculiar. But there was no touch, no actual contact. It was as if the whole thing took place in a vacuum. And since the field of life is largely an artificially-lighted stage today, the stories were curiously true to modern life, to the modern psychology, that is.
~ D.H. Lawrence