Quotes About Connection

Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.

What I've realized is that the joy of meeting and greeting people from all around the world is universal.

Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

The language of football is universal. You don't need to speak the local lingo in order to be able to communicate with a ball.

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal.

Music is truly universal and has no boundaries.

That's the beauty of art: art is universal.

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

Cooking is one of those things that is universal to people. And any time you can teach somebody a way to connect with all people, there's so much joy in it. And it is always going to be exciting.

Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart - or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground.

Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.

The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.

The thing is, if you tell your story specifically enough, it becomes so universal. Just because you're a gay man singing an honest love song, people should know that it's about men and that they can still relate to it.

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along.

I think people are universal.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.