Quotes on Saying Hello

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.