Contact Quotes

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.

There are not many people within the WWF that I am contact with.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

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.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

Politics is a contact sport.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.