Quotes About Connection

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'

I'm not gregarious. I spend a lot of time in the parks when it is fine. I do know almost every blade of grass.

It feels blessed to me. Because I go to comic cons, and people come up and they say, 'You're the reason I ride a motorcycle. You're the reason I became a mechanic.' And there are people who love 'Scream' and 'The Waterboy,' 'Royal Pains,' 'Parks & Rec,' 'Arrested Development.' And now 'Barry.' And then there are kids who only know me as an author.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.

My favorite body part is my heart. Nothing beats loving and being loved.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Our citizens must feel they are part and parcel of this country. This is essential.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

You have to know you are in a comedy. You have to know that you are actually allowing the audience to participate on some level. When you go dark and mean it, then you don't let them in.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

At first, not having Mina with us made us all feel lonely, and there was an emptiness without her. However, Mina is trying her best to participate, so even when she's not with us in person, she's still always with us in spirit.

It's very hard to participate in society when you can't talk to people on the medium that they talk to other people on.