Quotes About Social

People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.

I'm totally not a blogger. Sometimes I don't even check my email. I know I should.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

Where I came from had a lot of friends. A big social circle.

My wife Shirlie was in Wham! when we met, so we were moving in the same circles.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social channels, and in so doing, inspire countless supporters to build their reputation, profits and social impact.

My supporters are people who believe in being fiscally responsible and socially accepting. I think most people are in that category. Speaking with a broad brushstroke, those are my supporters.

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

I have a very normal social group that I really feed off of. They ground me. They're super supportive.

I have an incredibly supportive family... and I don't have much of a social life.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social.