Quotes About Connection

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

Blood is thicker than water, so the fact that I have my sister always with me, it's like you always have someone who's your best friend and always have someone who has your back. You can always trust your family, and I'm lucky to have that.

I think the health of our water is tied to a lot: the health of our communities, hence our economy, the health of our basic human rights.

I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

Paddle boarding: it's the closest you get to walking on water.

The first time you catch a fish, it's amazing. You make contact with this whole other world that exists, hidden, under the water.

The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Some of the things I have written about are a way of connecting with my father - I know he knew who Idi Amin was, and I know he knew who Longford was. And I know he knew who Nixon was, because shortly before he died, I talked to him about Watergate.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to places like Maroubra or Redfern or Waterloo or Erskineville, I feel more at home because of the people I'm around - anywhere I can see a face that reflects someone that looks like my family, I feel much more at home.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I'd like to work with John Waters. I grew up in Maryland, so I'm a huge Waters fan.

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

I love Bach cello suites, I love punk music, I love old blues, negro spiritual quartets, Muddy Waters' 'You Need Love.' There is a simplicity but also a bite that connects all that music, from the growl in the cello to the timbre in Muddy's voice.

You know how you wave your hands when you say good-bye? We want to get so big that people use the kitsune sign instead!

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.