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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important. -- Giovanni Ribisi
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally. -- Chris Noth
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. -- Miuccia Prada
My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact. -- Philipp Meyer
Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy. -- Margaret Heffernan
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. -- Martha Beck
The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I find human contact repulsive. -- Larry David
I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact. -- Doris Lessing
The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving. -- Patch Adams
I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter -- Jeff Lindsay
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. -- Ugo Betti
There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact. -- Marie-Louise von Franz
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. -- Miuccia Prada
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. -- Robert McKee
It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives... -- Pope Benedict XVI
My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. -- Robin Williams
A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum. -- R. B. Kitaj
I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love. -- Mabel Iam
Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m., minimal human contact. That's living the dream. -- Mat Johnson
Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile. -- A. J. McLean
Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life. -- George Edward Woodberry
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again. -- Yvon Chouinard
America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact. -- D. H. Lawrence
Physical contact is a human necessity. -- David Byrne
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. -- Anais Nin
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. -- Jamie Oliver
I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition. -- Carol Bartz
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it. -- Andrew Pyper
Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants. -- Richard Preston
There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing. -- Matthew Stewart
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough. -- Joy Williams
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. -- Jared Diamond
If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them. -- Mary Roach
Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we 'feel the presence of another' at times before we become aware of him by means of our ordinary senses. -- Max Heindel
There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into close contact, that there will be the jumping of species from a chicken to a human. This is not something new. -- Anthony Fauci
We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it. -- Noam Chomsky
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. -- Barbra Streisand
We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human. -- David Abram
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. -- Anthony de Mello
My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation. -- William E. Gladstone
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated. -- Terence McKenna
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it. -- Andrew Pyper
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
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part. -- Wallace Stegner
Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes. -- Jon Stewart
If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. -- Rachel Carson
Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers -- Ziggy Marley

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