#contact

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

#american #being #come #contact #expecting

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#after #been #contact #continue #distance

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#chance #contact #elected #fair #fair chance

Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. ↗

— George Santayana

#freethinking #skepticism #nobility

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

— Bill Watterson

#elsewhere #exists #i #i think #intelligent

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. ↗

— Hu Shih

#contact #culture #diffused #factors #necessary

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#contact #his #i #involved #jackson

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#did #had #here #i #job

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. ↗

— Hu Shih

#brought #changes #china #chinese #chinese people

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. ↗

— Hu Shih

#comparison #contact #critically #cultural #elements