Quotes About Socializing

Civilization as well as civility thrive where there is a pot of beer.

How many Americans having "surfed" all the channels and, bored by it all, wouldn't like to slip on a jacket and walk down to the corner and have a cold one with the neighbors? Ah, but we've made sure there's nothing on the corner but another private residence . . . indeed, nothing at all within easy walking distance.

I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.

I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.

Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

I used to love going out to discos. Chatting up the girls, getting a dance.

Anywhere I go, if I go out, I have to keep my phone out. I don't try to be rude. If I turn it around, I have to check it every 5 minutes.

I watch TV, spend time with my family, chill with the boys and go to the cinema - that sort of thing.

I only hang about with people I don't feel awkward around. I don't let many people into my circle.

I don't really do a big Saturday supper. I prefer entertaining in the daytime.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

I would like to think I am a little bit of a man's man and a ladies' man. I suppose, I'm a guy's guy because I like to do a lot of, you know, the man stuff: Working out, off-roading, getting on the dirt bike and what not. I am a ladies' man because I spend more time with girls than I do with guys.

I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

Besides writing music and surfing, I like to simply chill with my friends. Watching movies and going out to eat are often my prime choices for a day off.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

An especially good way to gain weight is to have dinner with other people. On average, those who eat with one other person eat about 35 percent more than they do when they are alone; members of a group of four eat about 75 percent more; those in groups of seven or more eat 96 percent more.

A party without cake is just a meeting.

I like to cook for 2, or for 4 or 6 at the most 8 people. Beyond that you get into quantity cooking and that is just not my field at all. The last time we had 12 for a sit-down dinner and I did all the cooking, and Paul and I did all the setting up, serving, and washing up afterwards, I said never again. I'll do a buffet, but I don't consider that civilized dining; it is feeding, and I like to sit down at a well-set table.

A party without a cake is just a meeting.

They were more like a type. Not so much regulars as clubbers—you know, the ones who hit the circuit every night or every Friday and make the rounds. Not really anybody's regulars and not really anybody's friends, but they're there all the time and you sort of know who they are.

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.