Connections Quotes

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection.

The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It's a biological term. I'd rather be a jerk than a scientist when it comes to love.

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.

Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.

Money and stuff aren't what makes us happy. It's strong connections within families and friends, communities of people that truly care about one another.

I have never felt any connection with my family. There is—I must say simply—something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.

I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

They say that even a hateful connection is still binding.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, its a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

The place of connection or separation in relationship to your own being, the place in your self where this occurs, is in your heart.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

'Fringe' is essentially a love story, so the scenes where Walter had close connection with Peter, but also with Anna's character or Jasika's character, were very special to me.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

Listening is about making and strengthening a connection with another person.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

My fans and I have that special connection because whenever we talk on Twitter and Facebook we really have that one on one connection and I feel that's important.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

...if I know him and like him just a little bit more than I already do, our emotional connection will be too strong for me to ever go back to the way I was before him.

I’m not Buddhist, I’m not Hindu, I’m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.

For everyone that doesn't want to endorse Donald Trump or doesn't even want to support him, they should realize he actually has a connection to his voters.

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.

People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

When you're in touch with your heart, you feel a connection with others and you have access to your wisdom.

I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.