Contacts Direct Quotes & Sayings

There's more to life than football, right? — Fabrice Muamba

The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast ... So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet. — Edmund White

I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished. — Carl Jung

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying. — Mason Cooley

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. — Brendan Gill

Acknowledge and accept that there will be chaotic times while being on your raft from being lost in true freedom. Engulfed by darkness at sea, we are consumed by a great loneliness that has consistently existed even when people surrounded us, and that is when we must throw all that is heavy into the water, and float independently through to the present. — Forrest Curran

The West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government. — Ilana Mercer

Procrastination can be overcome with effective time management skills and strategies. — Robert Moment

Joy makes the longest journey too short. — John Wooden

And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process. — Bell Hooks

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels. — Burt Lancaster

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts. — Robert Rauschenberg

I don't feel like losing to a fool. — Tachibana Higuchi

People come into our lives and then they go out again. The entropy law, as applied to human relations. Sometimes in their passing, though, they register an unimagined and far-reaching influence, as I suspect Hughes Rudd did upon me. There is no scientific way to discern such effects, but memory believes before knowing remembers. And the past lives coiled within the present, beyond sight, beyond revocation, lifting us up or weighting us down, sealed away
almost completely
behind walls of pearl. — David Quammen

Grab their lines! Stop that coffeehouse!" someone was shouting. "There are fugitives and cell-breakers aboard! — Frances Hardinge

A new heart for a New Year, always! — Charles Dickens

It's a hat," said Jess.
Manx stretched. "Yes."
"A hat with - just to be clear - a lizard on it. A real, dead lizard."
"An iguana, yea. It's been stuffed."
"I can see that. Any idiot can see that, but it doesn;t address the issue."
"The issue being?"
"Manx, you're wearing a goddamn reptile! On your head! With pride! It's like you're the lovechild of Carmen Miranda and a taxidermist! — Foz Meadows