Connects Quotes

• What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Might

• What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation.

  

  Ed Mayo
  • Families
  • Cooperation
  • Contributes

• It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

  

  Nicholas Mosley
  • God
  • Point
  • Easily

• The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.

  

  Alex Atala
  • Food
  • Media
  • Connects

• For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Ocean
  • Touch
  • Connects

• If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

  

  Amit Goswami
  • World
  • Consciousness
  • Connects

• People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other.

  

  Allegra Goodman
  • Earth
  • Reason
  • Connects

• It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Sport
  • Phenomenon
  • Historian

• If there's any place that Bode connects, it's with kids. The way CBS portrayed him in their press release gave kids this misguided view that this is how they should be acting.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Kids
  • View
  • Portrayed

• This can be lonely work, but it connects you to other people in ways that many of the things we could do with our lives do not.

  

  Christine Sneed
  • People
  • Work
  • Lonely

• We're looking out for the financial best interests of the up-and-comer. Everything connects to that.

  

  Noah Kerner
  • Financial
  • Interests
  • Connects

• I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • Help
  • Feel

• That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Love
  • Die
  • Suffer

• What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Humans

• In the governor's race, Chris Bell has as good a shot as anybody in a four-way race. If Bell holds on to his base and connects with some people who are tired of the way things are going, he could win.

  

  Ed Martin
  • Win
  • Race
  • Connects

• With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.

  

  Mitchell Hurwitz
  • Family
  • American
  • Development

• If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.

  

  El Anatsui
  • Charge
  • Touching
  • Connects

• If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Responsibility
  • Environment
  • Planet