Quotes About Introductions

#1. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. It's strange how in the craziest moments you reach for normal things like handshakes and formal introductions.

Corey Ann Haydu

#3. Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

F. Sionil Jose

#4. No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.

Jay Samit

#5. My top lady advice is to make eye contact early on - before introductions, even - and just never break it, no matter what she does. Keep that dead-eyed lock on her. Works like a charm.

Chris Cain

#6. Wait, wait," Gaius cut in, his grin mischievous. "Before we go any further. I must make introductions. Keita, this is Kachka Shestakova of the - "
"Do not," the She-dragon roared, startling the birds from the trees, and the men training nearby, "again bore me with those ridiculously long names!

G.A. Aiken

#7. Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.

Marsha Blackburn

#8. As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Harper Lee

#9. If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up music, there's fighter introductions, there's between rounds, so my musical needs are really diverse.

Shawn Anthony Levy

#10. If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

Paige Craig

#11. The HR department is like the soldiers in the movie 300, holding the line. They have no power to say 'yes' but enormous power to say 'no.' Their job is to prevent you from moving forward. Find a way to vault past them by getting introductions to people who can say 'yes.

Reid Hoffman

#12. With introductions out of the way, Erick got down to the business of having abducted me.
"Why were you asking Fink about the priest?"
"I have some sins to confess," I said. "For ruining the life of the last man to kidnap me.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#13. After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted comfortable surroundings while plotting to murder one famed historical figure with another one.
~Cat

Jeaniene Frost

#14. My handshake is as firm as cooked spaghetti. So, do you prefer your introductions with Alfredo or marinara sauce?

Jarod Kintz

#15. It may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.

Anna Kingsford

#16. Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of introductions.

Tina Fey

#17. So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

A.A. Milne

#18. Elizabeth Blackwell, "with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value," found herself in the "unknown world" of Paris. What made her situation different from that of other American visitors was her profession. She was a doctor - the first American woman to have become a doctor.

David McCullough

#19. Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

Arthur Machen

#20. Dragons don't bother with introductions.

Robin Hobb

#21. Introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

Steve Martin

#22. One of the nice things about a second book is that your readers already have so much of the introductions on board, they don't have to put all their attention into figuring out the world and can more easily let that play out as a background to the other things you want to do.

Ann Leckie

#23. One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

Alister E. McGrath

#24. Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me).

Zack Love

#25. Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' - there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.

Hari Kondabolu

#26. Kids expected adults to show up in this part of their world. Because they were comfortable with us, introductions to their friends seemed natural.

Mark H. Senter III

#27. You the Dark-Hunter?"
Kyrian arched a brow. "You the flunky?"
"I don't like your tone."
"And I dont't like you. Now that we've dispensed with the introductions and have declared our mutual distaste for one another, why don't you take me to the one who holds your leash?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.

Tom Sutton

#29. Make your introductions and you're welcome to wander off with any of the women watching you like you're the last piece of chocolate on the first day of their period.

Avery Flynn

#30. A blond in a red dress can do without introductions
but not without a bodyguard.

Rona Jaffe

#31. Excuse me, but where do you think you're going?" I asked.
"I figured I'd put my underwear in with yours. That way they could all get to know each other." One brown eyebrow lifted. "Unless you want to make some formal introductions right now?

Michele Bardsley

#32. I'm not sure whether or not any love matches are made in heaven, but some do suggest heaven had a hand in the introductions.

Josephine Humphreys

#33. I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.

Will Schwalbe

#34. MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

Evelyn Waugh

#35. They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart.

W.B.Yeats

#36. Ask people you know if they can introduce you to someone you are specifically looking to meet.

Beth Ramsay

#37. He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time.

Katherine Rundell

#38. If you are uncomfortable meeting people on your own, the perfect way to do it is to volunteer to help greet those who arrive. This way, you have a purposeful task that is meeting people. Be sure to wear your name tag (on the right side of your body, please) and have business cards at the ready.

Beth Ramsay

#39. Do you mind? Just drape your arm around her shoulder. That's it. Yes this is good, Mr.Henshaw. Getting your picture taken with Daphne is a great way to introduce you to our set. Welcome to Santa Lucia!

Barbara Jean Coast

#40. Mrs. Francis, may I introduce the Scourge of the Skies, the Terror of Dairy Farmers, the Lord of Lactose, Master of the Cheese Pirates of Snow Monkey Island, Captain Cheesebeard.

Sean Cullen

#41. The average introduction to almost any book is somewhat of a bore

Boris Karloff

#42. The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. ("The Gift Of God").

Fletcher Pratt

#43. One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

George Eliot

#44. You know, stealing someone's kill is bad form," he complained, cutting through the quiet tension.

Katherine McIntyre

#45. Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.

Cassandra Clare

#46. I am the gaiaphage.

Michael Grant

#47. She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.

Harlan Ellison