Adjacency Pairs Quotes & Sayings

Most experts today subscribe to some variations of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor arises when people discover there's an inconsistency between what they expect to happen and what actually happens. Or, as seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal put it when he first came up with the concept, "Nothing produces laughter more than a surprising disproportion between that which one expects and that which one sees. — Joel Warner

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles. — Esther Dyson

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was. — John Lithgow

People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information. — Laura Poitras

If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period! — Tom Peters

Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced. — Billy Graham

You can't change the past. You can only change the future. — Amanda Grace

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on. — Victor Hugo

In the world "out there," there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in certain recurrent and yet not fully predictable patterns. We interpret such experiences as and through symbolic means, including linguistic expressions. That's what it means to be human. — Duranti A Alessandro

The virtual world can never be a substitute for real world experience. And the more it takes over our lives, the more we forget to feel the sun on our skin, the more we forget that there is an entire universe to be discovered even during a 10 minute walk to work. — Keri Smith

The trouble with my wife began when she needed Jesus and I needed a cat. — Chris Fabry

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days. — Aeschylus

Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving. — Paulo Coelho