Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
~By Alvin Dark ~
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.
~By Neneh Cherry ~
It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.
~By Curt Siodmak ~
I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
~By Keith Emerson ~
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.
~By Debi Mazar ~
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
~By Petrarch ~
You can't eat your friends and have them too.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.
~By Cybill Shepherd ~
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
~By Mark Twain ~
I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
~By Eleanor Mondale ~
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
~By Richard Parks Bland ~
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
~By John Donne ~
I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.
~By Rupert Grint ~
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.
~By Lady Gaga ~
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
~By Aeschylus ~
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
~By Fanny Burney ~
Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.
~By Kirsten Dunst ~
We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
~By Viktor Yushchenko ~
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
~By John Mayall ~
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
~By H. G. Bohn ~
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
~By Jane Austen ~
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
~By David Elkind ~
We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!
~By Mary-Kate Olsen ~
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
Friendship is Love without his wings!
~By Lord Byron ~
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
~By Beau Bridges ~
I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.
~By David Gallagher ~
For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
~By Andrei Sakharov ~
With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.
~By Michael Rosenbaum ~
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
~By Thom Gunn ~
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
~By Axel Munthe ~
I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
~By Whitney Houston ~
I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.
~By Margot Kidder ~
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
~By Peter Tork ~
Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!
~By Grey DeLisle ~
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.
~By Meg Tilly ~
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
~By Harrison Ford ~
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.
~By Anna Neagle ~
All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
~By Kate Moss ~
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
~By Erica Jong ~
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
~By Jena Malone ~
I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.
~By Kristen Bell ~
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
~By Ruby Wax ~
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
~By Aristotle ~
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
~By Jane Austen ~
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
~By Willie Stargell ~
I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
~By Casey Affleck ~
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
~By Catfish Hunter ~
I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
~By Nicholas Lea ~
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.
~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.
~By Yannick Noah ~
Of my friends I am the only one left.
~By Terence ~
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.
~By Richard Parks Bland ~
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
~By Paramahansa Yogananda ~
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
~By Francesco Guicciardini ~
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
~By Daniel Nathans ~
I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
~By Antoine Fuqua ~
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
~By Dennis Prager ~
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
~By Lionel Blue ~
I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
~By Daisy Donovan ~
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
~By Macaulay Culkin ~
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
~By Mick Taylor ~
You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
~By Eminem ~
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