Quotes About Social dynamics

Several times, I've been talking with some gross person at a party and had them literally walk away - mid convo - to ruthlessly approach someone more famous.

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

Waiting for your buddies to get laid is right up there with hanging out in a dentist's office.

Engels said: "what each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

High school popularity is so fickle.

Whitney eyed him, wary of a wolfdog sneak attack. Please. Recently, I'd been working on Coop's begging. Kit had put his foot down—no four-leggers tableside during meals. No exceptions. Coop obeyed me most of the time. When it suited him. I didn't mind if Coop ruffled Whitney's feathers—she was a self-important, dog-hating whiner. But it put Kit in a tight spot. Best not to make waves. Another accommodation for the bimbo.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Some years ago a psychiatrist had told me that finding out things other people didn't want known was my way of trying to stay even with a society filled with people bigger than I was. The remark had been meant to startle, to provoke insight, and eventually to alter my behavior. Instead, I'd simply found that I thoroughly agreed with him and had gone out after a private investigator's license. [Dr. Robert Frederickson AKA Mongo]

Gaal Dornick, utilizando conceptos no matemáticos, ha definido la psicohistoria como la rama de las matemáticas que trata sobre las reacciones de conglomeraciones humanas ante determinados estímulos sociales y económicos

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.

I'm more of the girl who's always in the friend zone, and I try to help if my other friend wants to get with someone. I can be a bit cheeky and say stuff that embarrasses my friends, but I'm normally the girl who guys like to be friends with, so I become friendly with the guy and then go, 'Oh, this is my other friend.'

Then here's to the City of Boston, The town of the cries and the groans, Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks, And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.

Two's a company, three's a crowd.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.

I've worked on 30-something different TV shows, and most of the people can't stand each other.

I was so boisterous in high-school, I don't think a lot of boys liked me that much 'cause they were like, 'Oh, she's so loud and so crazy.' But then this thing happens in your late twenties, and guys begin to take note of women's personalities more or something.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.