Contact Quotes · Page 23

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds…

— Mark Twain

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss…

— David Rakoff

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.

— Henry Villard

If no-eye contact sex were a sport, I'm not saying I'd make it to the Olympics, but I like my chances.

— Dov Davidoff

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience

— Judd Nelson

When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.

— Roberto Esposito

Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.

— Robert Pattinson

You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who…

— Wayne Dyer

I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of…

— Carrie Ann Inaba

I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I…

— Matthew Rhys

The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the…

— B. F. Skinner

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or…

— Hu Shih

When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to…

— Vivek Shraya

One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and…

— Laura Poitras

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by…

— George Rodger

Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten…

— Alan Coren

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense…

— Anonymous

And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu…

— Suketu Mehta

In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience…

— H. P. Lovecraft

One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in…

— Seymour Papert

... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

Have any of you taken a look out at Greece in the last, say, hour or so? (Hermes) What? Are they reacting…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by…

— Mooji

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or…

— Rupert Murdoch

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

— Jamie Oliver

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

— Ilka Chase

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

— Wallace Stegner

When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.

— Michael Beckwith

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

— Joseph R. Bartlett

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately…

— Rajneesh

Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it;…

— Vanna Bonta

I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

— L. Lionel Kendrick

“Cassian needed the contact. Always needed physical contact, he'd learned. Probably thanks to a childhood spent with precious little of it.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

— Anonymous

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

— Tommy Bolin

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

— Diego Maradona

We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop.

— Vladimir Putin

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its…

— Warren Farrell

Hillary Clinton could use one of these Apple Watches. She could hook it up to her secret email account. If you want…

— David Letterman