Quotes About Connections

I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

When I was in nightclubs, I thought they were a really important way for young people who come to New York to meet people and connect.

I have this nightmare that one day I will have to look at every picture I've ever taken with people in an airport or in bars or restaurants, and it will make me very sad.

I've been auditioning since I'm nine years old. Honestly, most of my friends I've met in audition rooms because you're always auditioning.

I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.

Somebody with no connection to the film industry may succeed, and somebody with all connections to the industry may not.

Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.

A veces, las cosas más sencillas y normales podían convertirse en acontecimientos extraordinarios, simplemente si las llevaban a cabo las personas adecuadas.

With fewer total cells, but more connections between each cell, the quality of your knowledge undergoes a transformation: you begin to have a feel for situations, people fall into types, your past memories link together, and your life begins to seem, as it hadn't when you were younger, an inevitable thing composed of a million small failures and successes dependently intergrown, as opposed to a bright beadlike row of unaffiliated moments.

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will. We arrange the circuits properly, and we see the mass of iron and wires behave as though it were endowed with life

We all have stories like that, stories we rely on to establish our charm in the beginning of relationships.

Do you believe in reincarnation? ... I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again.

Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love.

Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love. She snapped the embrace, but that wasn't it. She snapped the glitter of tears, and still, no. Then Alison lowered her forehead to her grandmother's, and even as her lips curved, a single tear slid down her cheek while the dress glowed and glittered behind them. Perfect. The blue butterfly.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

I love knowing a lot of people, but the downside is that means going to a lot of funerals.

The problem with loving so many people is that you lose so many.

Identifying disruptive footholds means connecting with specific jobs that people—your future customers—are trying to get done in their lives.

We all have threads in our lives, continuous strands that reach back years, decades, entire lifetimes. The threads are what help define who we are.

The question that lay before me, and I had so far failed to answer, was the way these connections might best be expressed. My mind was filled with possibilities but I had no real sense of how all that I knew was arrayed and dispersed; no sense of the pattern.

It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.