Selected connection quotes

1. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

2. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

3. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

4. You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.

5. Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

6. The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

7. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

8. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

9. We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

10. Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

11. Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.

12. Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

13. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

14. The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach.

15. For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

16. I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

17. I want to reach your mind - where is it currently located?

18. Isn't it a coincidence that you and I are both alive at the same time?

19. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

20. Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

21. Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

22. Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

23. Real living is living for others.

24. Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

25. Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

26. I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

27. Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

28. The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.

29. I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.

30. All living things on earth are kindred.

31. You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

32. It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

33. It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

34. The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

35. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

36. The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

37. I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

38. In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.

39. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

40. Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

41. I don't wanna end up in a room all alone. Don't want to end up someone I don't even know.

42. But let me get to the point, let's roll another joint. And turn the radio loud, I'm too alone to be proud. You don't know how it feels, you don't know how it feels to be me.

43. It's a smile a girl could bring home to mother, if she had a mother; a smile a girl could pet like a pony, sip like a lemonade, hum like a popular tune; a smile a girl would feel safe with in a dark alley.

44. Trinny Woodall is a prime-time star, but is proper posh with mighty connections, as demonstrated by the six-figure sums she blagged from richer friends on Comic Relief does the Apprentice.

45. But my nigga from the other side of the globe knows all my theories, i dedicate all this drama to you (Oumar Camara a.k.a Paparesta)

46. I can hear her heart beat from a thousand miles And the heavens open everytime she smiles And when I come to her that's where I belong Yet I'm running to her like a river's song.

47. Turn up your radio and let me hear the song Switch on your electric light Then we can get down to what is really wrong I long to hold you tight so I can feel you Sweet lady of the night I shall reveal you.

48. I'm in heaven, I'm in heaven I'm in heaven when you smile, when you smile.

49. And I shall get to know you In these lifetimes In awe and wonder On down through the years The nighttime angel spreads her wings around me I feel the silence And my doubts are cleared.

50. Some people spend their time just runnin' round in circles Always chasing some exotic bird I prefer to spend some time just listening for that special something That I've never ever heard I like a new song to sing, another show or somewhere entirely different to be But baby you make me feel so free.

51. Walkin' on a city street who would think you could ever be touched By a total stranger, not me But when you came up to me that day and I listened to your story It reminded me so much of myself It wasn't what you said but the way it felt to me About a search and a journey just like mine.

52. Open your arms in the early mornin' When the light comes shinin' through Can't you hear my heart beat just for you? It's beating so wild, honey. And light comes shinin' Singin' my song And the band is playin' And the music is tried and true.

53. There's a dream where the contents are visible Where the poetic champions compose Will you breathe not a word of this secrecy, and Will you still be my special rose?

54. I've been travellin' a hard road Baby lookin' for someone exactly like you I've been carryin' my heavy load Waiting for the light to come shining through Someone like you Make it all worth while Someone like you Make me satisfied Someone exactly like you.

55. 'I gotta find away to get my family back.'

56. I have drawn into myself so much that I literally do not see any other people anymore - excepting the peasants with whom I have direct contact, since I paint them.

57. Not a single thing do I remember from the first trip but this: the sense of the place, the savor of the genie-soul of the place which every place has or else is not a place...there it is as big as life, the genie-soul of the place which, wherever you go, you must meet and master first thing or be met and mastered. [citation needed]

58. There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the 'tough breaks' which are certain to come to most of us from time to time.

59. I only want to paint good,necessary,living pictures,which are experienced properly by at least a few viewers.

60. D'you need a friend? Yeah, me too...

61. I can see Blue, he looks glorious!

62. (speaking to 'Jovi') It's just nice to meet another human that shares my affinity for elf culture.

63. (To 'Jovi') I think you're really beautiful and I feel really warm when I'm around you and my tongue swells up. (pause)...So... do you wanna eat food?

64. (To a stranger on the elevator) Oh I forgot to give you a hug.

65. To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel differently about the ground you walk over every day.

66. I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words.

67. I am not an Ivory Tower intellectual.

68. My uncle jumped up from the desk, loving him more than he loved any other man in the world, and through him loving the lost nation, the multitude dead, and the multitude living in every alien corner of the world.

69. Poetry must be read to be poetry. It may be that one reader is all that I deserve. If this is so, I want that reader to be you.

70. Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.

71. Each person belongs to the environment, in his own person, as himself.

72. Many friendships are swift and accidental, the result of a chance meeting, followed by a permanent separation.

73. O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!

74. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel- I feel it all. Oh evil day! if I were sullen While the Earth herself is adorning, This sweet May-morning.

75. I then had one of the three or four long intimate conversations with him which are all I can boast.

76. We have a good time together, even when we're not together.

77. I guess I just get to the heart of people's feelings, that's all.

78. Mark: Um. I don't know Hayley. I don't know. Because I admire the fact that you keep challenging yourself. You know, last week was an enormous challenge for you and you keep doing that and I don't want to discourage that because it's a fantastic thing about you. But honestly, I just really don't think that you totally connected with that at the level that Anastacia actually bought the meaning of that song and what it meant to her. I didn't feel it from you. It didn't connect for me like some of the others that you've done have.

79. Mark: I felt that you were singing it to your husband, but I'd suggest that you should block everyone else out and REALLY sing it to your man.

80. Literature is the new foreplay.

81. I think one of the reasons so many people connected to him is they could tell his music was really pure and instinctual.

82. We'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sunrise From the bottom of the sea But first, are you experienced? Uh-have you ever been experienced? Well, I have

83. I say I like your coat Her thank-you tugs my heart afloat I nearly didn't hear for Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her

84. how beautiful is the universe when something digestible meets with an eager digestion how sweet the embrace when atom rushes to the arms of waiting atom

85. 'and liars kill their kind but' her,my 'love creates love only' our

86. true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who;

87. blossoming are people: all the earth has turned to sky :and i am you are i am we

88. -the great my darling happens to be that love are in we, that love are in we

89. it's so damn sweet when Anybody- :makes you feel :for once (imag -ine) You

90. I found many men to whom I felt deeply grateful - especially Guy de Maupassant, Jack London, and H. L. Mencken - but the first man to whom I felt definitely related was George Bernard Shaw. This is a presumptuous or fatuous thing to mention, perhaps, but even so it must be mentioned. ... I myself, as a person, have been influenced by many writers and many things, and my writing has felt the impact of the writing of many writers, some relatively unknown and unimportant, some downright bad. But probably the greatest influence of them all when an influence is most effective - when the man being influenced is nowhere near being solid in his own right - has been the influence of the great tall man with the white beard, the lively eyes, the swift wit and the impish chuckle. ... I have been fascinated by it all, grateful for it all, grateful for the sheer majesty of the existence of ideas, stories, fables, and paper and ink and print and books to hold them all together for a man to take aside and examine alone. But the man I liked most and the man who seemed to remind me of myself - of what I really was and would surely become - was George Bernard Shaw.

91. What's Bagism? It's like... a tag for what we all do, we're all in a bag ya know, and we realised that we came from two bags, I was in this pop bag going round and round in my little clique, and she was in her little avant-garde clique going round and round, and you're in your little tele clique and they're in their...ya know? and we all sort of come out and look at each other every now and then, but we don't communicate. And we all intellectualize about how there is no barrier between art, music, poetry... but we're still all 'I'm a rock and roller, he's a poet' ... so we just came up with the word so you would ask us what bagism is, and we'd say 'WE'RE ALL IN A BAG BABY!'

92. 'I love you guys.' - Josh

93. I have a lot of things in my classes that I call 'voluntarily mandatory.' One of the things that is voluntarily mandatory is that every student come to see me in my office at least once. I cannot teach bodies. I can only relate to people. And so I say, 'Come in, and we will sit across from one another. I don't want to talk about the texts or the class. We can do that another time. I just want to know the last time you saw a unicorn and do you still believe in primeval forests. And when you come, I am going to touch you - and if that bothers you, take your tranquilizer.' It is amazing how many are intimidated by someone who says, 'I want to touch you.' I was raised in a large Italian family, as most of you know, and everybody hugs everybody all the time. On holidays everyone gets together, and it takes forty-five minutes just to say hello and forty-five minutes to say goodbye. Babies, parents, dogs - everyody's got to be loved! And so I have never suffered that existential feeling of not being. If someone can hug you and not go through you, you are. Try it sometime.

94. About two years ago a young lady came into my office, and I knew immediately something was wrong. Her eyes were kind of glazed, and her head was nodding, and I asked, 'What's the matter'' She replied, 'Oh, Dr. Buscaglia, in order to get enough courage to come to see you, I had to drink a whole bottle of Ripple! And I think I am going to be sick!' Imagining... having to drink a bottle of Ripple to summon up the courage to come to see me. All I do is put my hands out and say, 'Hi.' I cover their hands with mine and lead them into my office, and I can see a look of panic on their faces, 'What's he going to do to me?' I am not going to do anything to you! I just want you to know that I cry, too, and I feel, too, and I care, too, and I don't know everything, too, and therefore, we can start with a common frame of reference - human being to human being. If anybody tries to play the game of 'follow the guru' with me, they will be lost, for they will learn that I am just as confused as they are. The difference may be that I know it. A Buddhist teacher once said to me, 'Why do you keep moving? You are already there.' And all of a sudden it occurred to me - my goodness, I am!

95. So I pray the gods may hear even me, and let my whispered yes tower above my shouted no and mount all the way to their fivefold realm. As I would be heard, so I hear you.*

96. The thundering waves are calling me home to you The pounding sea is calling me home to you

97. I love manikins. I want to bring them to life. I give mine names. I feel as if I know them. I'll often talk to them in my living room. ~Rolling Stone 1983

98. let me have a look inside these eyes while I'm learning please don't hide them just because of tears

99. 'Smell the horse on this one <sniff><sniff>' -- While performing with Crazy Horse

100. I strive to discover how to signal my companions before I die, how to give them a hand, how to spell out for them in time one complete word at least, to tell them what I think this procession is, and toward what we go. And how necessary it is for all of us together to put our steps and hearts in harmony. To say in time a simple word to my companions, a password, like conspirators. Yes, the purpose of Earth is not life, it is not man. Earth has existed without these, and it will live on without them. They are but the ephemeral sparks of its violent whirling. Let us unite, let us hold each other tightly, let us merge our hearts, let us create - so long as the warmth of this earth endures, so long as no earthquakes, cataclysms, icebergs or comets come to destroy us - let us create for Earth a brain and a heart, let us give a human meaning to the superhuman struggle. This anguish is our second duty.