Quotes About Connection

You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.

Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.

Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away.

You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear.

If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape.

We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

I like to get the audience involved in my act by walking among the tables and getting people to ask me questions.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

It's not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can't escape this bubble from being on our phones and tablets.

As the world continues its love affair with smartphones and tablets, mobile has become so essential to our lives that most people couldn't imagine life without it.

I don't like the fact people watch things on their phones and tablets, it kind of hurts my heart.

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.

When you are talking to a dog about cancer, there are no judgments or taboos.

I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.

My father wasn't just taciturn - it was like he didn't want to be heard.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.