Quotes About Connections

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

To wit, John Harrison served as the son, grandson, brother, and uncle of one Henry Harrison or another, while his mother, his sister, both his wives, his only daughter, and two of his three daughters-in-law all answered to the name Elizabeth.

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

Il est plus facile de se faire des ennemis que des amis, mais ces derniers sont plus utiles. Le

I broke into Hollywood the old-fashioned way. I knew somebody.

When assessing family connections, the anatomy of a larva is obviously as valid a piece of evidence as that of an adult. Indeed, it is usually even more significant, for animals have the remarkable tendency to repeat during their individual development the stages through which their ancestors passed during evolutionary history.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

If you see a flash of lightning far away, you can forecast with a high degree of confidence that a thunderclap is due. Forecasting the consequences of megapolitical transitions involves much longer time frames, and less certain connections, but it is a similar kind of exercise.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

keep your focus on aesthetics: notice Rist's use of the color red, but avoid making connections, actually just avoid using your head—lose yourself in her immersive installations instead.

It says that whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we're able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our current questions, it does not mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reason.

Andy's mother, with her understated jewelry and her not-quite-interested smile – the kind of woman who could get on the phone with the mayor if she needed a favor – seemed

Well, well. Isn't it a small world? And a peach of a world, too. A true little corker.

A good detective not only has to be intelligent, persevering and prepared to do enless boring routine work, he also needs one other quality: Intuition. I see it rather as the ability to make connections which are there but are not immediately apparent. Subterranean connections.

Here's an interesting little notion. Did you realize that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?

Sabiendo que estaban reunidos [...] por una curiosa perversión de la física, como si las relaciones entre la gente estuvieran sujetas a las mismas leyes que regían la relación entre átomos y moléculas.

The biblical narrator was therefore at pains to conceal any family connections between Israel and Egypt.

The basic approach of positioning is not to create something new and different, but to manipulate what's already up there in the mind, to retie the connections that already exist.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

The best transactions in families or between friends occur on the fly. They come as stochastic shocks, or serendipities. People often step out onto our path as we are hurrying to a meeting or intent on finishing a project, and it usually turns out that the meeting or the project was inconsequential compared to the chance to get closer to someone we cared for.

Business always requires personal relationships.

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.