Quotes About Connection

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

N.Y. is like second home to me. I love that city. I have lived there for a couple of years and it's always a pleasure to go back there.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.

May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

I like interaction. I like engagement. My favorite part of Twitter is really the mentions and interacting with people. It's rarely just the broadcasting of my opinions. I have plenty of other mediums to do that.

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe.

I think there's plenty of folks out there, whether they agree with me or not, they appreciate the fact that you're listening to them. And I think that's how you win.

Who doesn't like having love, companionship, care and affection? I get plenty of that from my family and friends. But I'm not averse to marriage.

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotionally affecting the audience. Having a thought myself and then an emotional experience myself, somehow transferring that to the audience.

I don't believe that the world is that crazy that they have nothing to better to do with their time than send me emails and tell me these outlandish stories. So I've started to plot the communities that have come to me on a map.

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.

People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic.

We're always talking and plotting and discussing what we can do to give our fans the best possible experience and leave everyone going home with having an amazing time and a memory that will last a lifetime.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.