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Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. -- Douglas Coupland
I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with. -- Maggie Grace
When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views. -- Rick Bass
As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them. -- Simon Mainwaring
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
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile. -- Cameron Diaz
There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent! -- Sherry Turkle
I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. -- Samuel L. Jackson
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us. -- Regina Brett
People simply don't make eye contact anymore. -- Eric Kripke
Wrestling is only gay when you make eye contact. -- Felipe Esparza
I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact. -- Gary Numan
The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact. -- Sarah Addison Allen
The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age. -- Saoirse Ronan
Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster. -- Jenna Jameson
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
Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. -- Don DeLillo
If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact. -- Jack Handey
The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry -- Andrew Marr
Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it -- John Green
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently. -- Gretchen Rubin
Flirting all starts with eye contact! You can tell a girl is into you if she's across the room and still making eye contact with you. -- Chandler Parsons
I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy. -- Mary Lambert
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace. -- Frans de Waal
Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there. -- Laura Marano
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. -- David Cone
Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you. -- Frederick Lenz
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul. -- Paulo Coelho
A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot. -- Demetri Martin
My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs. -- Steve Earle
Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that. -- Hilary Duff
When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share. -- Bryan Batt
There are simple rules of engagement: You need to have your voice, but it has to be very intentional - be brief and to the point, with fresh ideas. Don't restate things someone else has said. Make eye contact with the person who has the floor. -- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be detected because they fidget a lot, hold very still, cross their legs, cross their arms, look up, look down, make eye contact or fail to make eye contact. -- Robin Marantz Henig
If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they're going to recognise you. You learn to adapt: 99.999 per cent of people aren't looking to be harmful or unpleasant; they just want something, a photograph or an autograph. -- Robert Sheehan
You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd and kick it with 'em, stage dive, mosh. I make 'em laugh. I go out there and turn up, have fun. There's no set list; I don't have rehearsals. -- Schoolboy Q
I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things. -- Sandra Bullock
There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color. -- Peng Liyuan
In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it. -- Lynda Barry
To avoid eye contact, kiss. -- Mason Cooley
Don't avoid eye contact and don't be late -- Jack Dorsey
Never make eye contact with anyone while eating a banana -- Harry Styles
Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be. -- Faraaz Kazi
If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact. -- Darynda Jones
Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Laurence J. Peter
Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you." -- Viggo Mortensen
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her. -- Paul Cezanne
That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing. -- Derek Ridgers
But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you're right there in love again. -- Taylor Swift
I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm. -- Jason Najum
To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working. -- Paul Cezanne
Look into a mirror, make eye contact with yourself, and say "I love me" as many times as possible during the day. -- Wayne Dyer
If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level. -- Jeff McBride
So just look mean and don't make eye contact with anyone. (Syn) Gee, hon, you take me to the most wonderful places. (Shahara) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human. -- Brian Hare
There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact. -- Rainbow Rowell
It doesn't cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact. -- Tony Hsieh
With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling. -- Jamie Wyeth
I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy. -- Ilona Andrews
This is your sword. You press the pointy end into the enemy. Try not to let him make eye contact with you and remember, he spits invisible poison. (Thorn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact. -- Brad Meltzer
I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
For heaven's sake, if you don't know someone's name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say, "Nice to see you!" and make weak eye contact. -- Mindy Kaling

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