I love ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and ‘Extras’ and also ‘The Trip.’ That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
‘Walking and Talking’ is my love letter to books, ’70s television, music and friendship.
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty – attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
When I read ‘Stand By Me,’ it was like, ‘This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.’ That’s what got to me.
I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
With friendship, it’s hard sometimes – you don’t outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it’s okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.
With the publication of my book, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady,’ I have exercised my right to free expression.
Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner’s foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
I really wasn’t even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
Roose is a very cold, pragmatic guy, and he’s a survivor. He makes choices based on that, and friendship goes out the window.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there’s a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.
Stretching back nearly three decades, Brian Williams and I have forged an enduring friendship. It all began in 1986 at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia and has resulted in a set of noteworthy experiences, amazing successes, and a bunch of trips to NASCAR speedways.
Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.
People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
Opposition is true friendship.
I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There’s not a lot of love going around.
It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
If I’m right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
When I was working on my first novel, ‘The Quilter’s Apprentice,’ I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women’s friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
Longevity in friendship is very important and one of the keys to the foundation of a happy life.
I think in order to really create something special, it has to be built on some foundation. And I think friendship is a good foundation you could always tap back on if you don’t agree. So for me, it’s not dating, it’s more so friendship.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
We are going to extend our frank hand to seek a relation of friendship – I repeat – of cooperation with the United States.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities – good and bad.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
When I am linked with close friends, it affects my friendship with them, and that’s upsetting.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
I haven’t expressed this too much in public, but I have a friendship to a degree with Bruce Springsteen.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
My characters have never waged a war against any gender. They are all about friendship and being loyal to your friends.
I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.
My book ‘Ali Pasha’ tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
