Friends Quotes - Page 27

• The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

  Francois Truffaut

  Numbers, Directors, Tomorrow

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• I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.

  Nicole Sullivan

  Years, Laughing, Together

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• In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

  Fred Ward

  Lying, Play, Levels

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• You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

  Ernst Zundel

  Years, People, Cynical

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• The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

  Ernst Zundel

  Long, Reason Why, Cautious

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• God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Moving, Wife

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• William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

  Patrick Stewart

  Smart, Writing, Character

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• It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Cousin, Farewell

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, New Relationship, Glasses

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• There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Friendship, Demand, Honest

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Comedian, Appropriate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.91

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• Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Business

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• Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Drama, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.112, Penguin

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• To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
  [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici;
  Expertus metuit.]

  Horace

  Men, Intimate, Pleasant

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• It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

  George Eliot

  Utterance, My Friends

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6477, Delphi Classics

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• Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

  Nicholas Pileggi

  Things In Life, Two, Honor

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• I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Positive, Looks

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784)

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• My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

  Carnie Wilson

  Inspirational, Marriage, Dog

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• There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

  Boris Yeltsin

  People, Political, Temptation

  "The Struggle for Russia". Book by Boris Yeltsin, 1994.

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• Father,
  you died once,
  salted down at fifty-nine,
  packed down like a big snow angel,
  wasn't that enough?

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Angel, Snow

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• For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

  Willow Bay

  Impact, Speak Less, Maximum

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• I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Friendship, Balls

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• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Friendship, Force

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.87

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• Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Friendship, Suffering

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1596, Moody Publishers

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• In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

  Erica Jong

  Friendship, Bad Relationship, Talking

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