Quotes About Connection

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

We all need each other.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

At school, I could talk about what other kids were talking about. Maybe I wouldn't seem so strange if I connected with them on the level they were used to.

I grew up with a special-needs brother, and the separation from other kids is so extreme. We've got to break down those barriers.

The joy I get while listening to my daughter, Poonthendrel, speak is incomparable. I've listened to several other kids speak but have never enjoyed it as much as I have enjoyed listening to my daughter.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out.

That's the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect to it?

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

I mean, the media and bloggers may say otherwise, but in reality I have a lot of fans because I'm the only celebrity that actually takes time out to call them and talk to them. I don't think a lot of celebrities do that.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

The memories we make with our family is everything.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream.

I have had the opportunity to speak to the people of South Jersey. I have held Tele-Town Halls, gone to countless events, and met with thousands of the individuals who make up our community.

We shared our father with the world.

In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.