Avoiding Close Contact

Famous quotes containing the words avoiding, close and/or contact:

    “As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “I close my eyes over the steaming
    tea and see God opening His teeth.
    “Oh,” He says.
    I see the child in me writing, “Oh.”
    Oh, my dear, not why.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child’s play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.”
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)