Quotes About Connection

People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

I do believe in 'forever' in terms of relationships. There's something really amazing about being with someone for a long time and really knowing each other in that way. They end up becoming your closest friend.

To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

In 1991, my father passed away and I went on a spiritual quest. It was a light one, not too terribly deep because I'm not terribly deep, and neither was my father.

Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

I felt it was terribly important, for Stephen and the children, to keep the family together.

I think local shopping areas and markets are terribly important, both for tradespeople and the local feeling of an area.

While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

We take things to remind us of home. I think my favourite is a stuffed dog that was homemade from a picture of my little Jack Russell terrier.

My parents had a Boston terrier, but we never became friends.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.

I've been in scenes with my brother where I've been absolutely emotionally terrified to go somewhere. But because he's my brother, I feel safe.