Emily Giffin Quotes

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.

You learn a lot about human nature in a bar.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what's possible in different social settings, and different settings of class designation as well.

If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.

No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.

preety girls behave best when you ignore them

You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations.

In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.