Friends Quotes
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Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.
Jonathan Swift
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Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.
Bernard Williams
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My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.
Melissa Etheridge
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Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.
Richard Widmark
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I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you.
Joanne Rowling
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The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.
Janet Mock
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He George W. Bush was speaking in congress and he was saying 'Why do they hate us? Because of what’s going on right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Except for me, of course. I took the presidency in a bureaucratic coup with the help of my father’s friends in the courthouse around the corner.'
Marc Maron
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Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
Emily Bronte
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Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.
Elizabeth Keckley
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We make friends with people we admire, including those you might consider competitors, like charity: water, Kiva, and Global Giving. We get on a call with them and exchange ideas.
Charles Best
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In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
Jennifer Pahlka
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We were always around music and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, knowing the right friends.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on my own.
Exene Cervenka
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I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.
Anna Kendrick
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And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.
Elvis Costello
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The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.
Dalai Lama
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All my friends are girls. I just prefer the company of women.
Louise Nurding
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My friends and I have always been trying to make movies, at every moment. We've tried so many different angles and approaches. But when it happens, it happens, and you just run with it.
Jon Watts
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Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.
Jenna Bush
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He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils.
Emile Souvestre
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Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.
William Wordsworth
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Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
Charles Bukowski
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The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.
William Boyd