Quotes About Connection

Hopefully, I will be meeting the right person one day.

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.

Look, I'm 41 with a six-year-old son, and even though I live in a building with a million kids, he doesn't have one friend there because there's no context for making that happen. I think there's a huge market for a connected building where I could broadcast to other parents that I want to set up a playdate for my child.

Oh, my God, I literally only have, like, one friend that I'm actually completely, like, myself with.

Don't we fall in love with a girl in just one minute? It's all about the connect.

That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.

One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters.

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.