“You have a way with people.”— Vince Vaughn, Jared Stern, Andrew 'Headphones' Anderson, Josh Gad, imdb.com
“A good detective knows that every task, every interaction, no matter how seemingly banal, has the potential to contain multitudes.”— Mark Goffman, Sherlock Holmes, Jonny Lee Miller, imdb.com
“Relationships are built in the silences. You spend time with people, you observe them and interact with them, and you come to know them—and that is what apartheid stole from us: time.”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.”— Rick Warren, amazon.com
“We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I don’t think I do understand people very well. I only know whether I like — or dislike — them.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.”— Anton Chekhov, en.wikiquote.org
“Text messaging can be fun, but it can't replace real live encounters. Use texting to make a date to actually see each other in person.”— Kathy Belge, lesbianlife.about.com
“Your mate never talks to you. You live together but don't interact. He has become cold and inconsiderate of your feelings.”— Raymond B. Green, today.com
“Things have their ways. They speak to us. They nudge us. Things live amongst us. Or, more properly put, we live amongst them. When I look at something, at anything, that thing quite literally fills my body. To perceive is to be affected. It is silly to think that we have some soul, some being, that…”— Daniel Coffeen, hilariousbookbinder.blogspot.com