In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.

- Barton Gellman

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

In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

- Carey Mulligan

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

- Carlisle Floyd

When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.

- Charlotte Rampling

The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.

- Catherine Asaro

The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species.

- Baruj Benacerraf

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'

- Brian Ferneyhough

I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.

- Boy George

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

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

- Anais Nin

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

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

- Aaron Klug

I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun.

- Amanda Schull

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

- Andres Serrano

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.

- Alison Moyet

The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.

- Astro Teller

If someone is making a very expensive purchase decision, they typically have a lot of questions about the fit and about what to wear the item with. In some cases, they'll ask for additional images or want to contact the designer.

- Aslaug Magnusdottir

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

- Agnes Repplier