Quotes About Connection

The vast majority of my fan mail comes from older women and gay men.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.

Walking into the Ryman with Lester Flatt was the equivalent of walking into the Vatican with the pope.

I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!

Being vegan just gives you such great karma.

I feel very connected to Las Vegas. It's my hometown.

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

Elvis Presley invited me to Las Vegas for one night but we got on so well that I stayed for three.

I went with a friend to see Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas, in the last year that he was performing. He wasn't necessarily on top form, but the way he could connect with an audience and the way he communicated through the lyrics was something I hadn't ever really seen before.

I'm not going to get rid of my house in Vegas. I love that house.

Vegas is my town, my people.

We ask how did ISIS members become radicalized? How did the shooters in El Paso or Orlando or Las Vegas become radicalized? Well, the answer very often is the Internet. The digital land of make-believe. The same pipeline that helps my children learn, helps you connect with your loved ones also poisons some adults and distorts their reality.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.

My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks.

I plant vegetables and every time I see a flower I'm like, 'I'm going to get a vegetable in a few weeks!'

Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.