Quotes About Self Introductions

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

George Eliot

#2. 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

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

F. Sionil Jose

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

Corey Ann Haydu

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Rona Jaffe

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Boris Karloff

#14. 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

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

Fletcher Pratt

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Katherine McIntyre

#22. 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

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

Alister E. McGrath

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Steve Martin

#27. I am the gaiaphage.

Michael Grant

#28. Dragons don't bother with introductions.

Robin Hobb

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

Harlan Ellison

#30. 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