Contact Quotes - page 5

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled. (Silvia Colloca)
I am trying to intensify my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air – trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity. View quote
Franz Marc
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. View quote
Hu Shih
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. View quote
Hu Shih
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. View quote
Hu Shih
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people. View quote
Andres Serrano
In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since. View quote
Anita Hill
It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better. View quote
Alain Prost
In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.' View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness. (Ben Casnocha)
I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from 'Armageddon' to 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Contact,' and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment. View quote
Chris Vance
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. View quote
Duffy Daugherty
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be. View quote
Dwight Schultz
People simply don't make eye contact anymore. View quote
Eric Kripke
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music. View quote
Esa-Pekka Salonen
So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there. View quote
Evan Parker
I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important. View quote
Giovanni Ribisi
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life. View quote
George Edward Woodberry
I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down. View quote
Herb Ritts
I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes. (Joel Gretsch)
The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding. View quote
John Warnock
Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun. View quote
Jose Garces
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough. View quote
Joy Williams
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information. View quote
Kate Adie