Quotes About Connection

My cat Isabella, she doesn't get along with anyone else. She's kind of like me: like, very anti-social and fierce. So we speak to each other on a spiritual level, and we cuddle every night. So it's pretty serious.

I have loved fiercely in my life - a few times.

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

A good fight scene is really a good love scene.

My older brother's been my best friend since I can remember. I talk to him every day of my life, and anytime he's in town we're together. But I'm also very close with my parents. We all get along very, very well. We've never had fights or anything like that.

I want to make great fights, emotional fights, for all my fans and everyone watching.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

Figuring out how to scale the very human art of personalization is difficult, but I believe that it is also the key to building a lasting connection with customers for the long term.

I love figuring people out.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

I am so grateful that my Filipino fans cheer me on and support me, even if I'm from far away.

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

'Mekhi' means, sort of, one who loves water, and the relationship with water and how water is important to life... It's a sense of being needed and purpose - you know, we have a purpose on this earth, and we're here to fill that.

Once you fill yourself with love, then you will have love to give to the rest of the world. This is my philosophy.

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

It's only a house when it's filled with people you love.

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult world.

The audience fills me back up, definitely.