Connections Quotes - Page 34

• At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

  Terry Waite

  Inspirational, Winning, Compassion

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• There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

  Christopher Walken

  Funny, Scary, Dangerous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

  Gerard Way

  Art, Grandmother, Play

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• I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Father

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• When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

  Alfre Woodard

  Love, Fall, Heart

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• There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

  Donnie Yen

  Character, Thinking, Flying

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• Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Driven

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• Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to help us make friends, but to turn our network of connections, brand preferences and activities over time - our 'social graphs' - into money for others.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Party, Doe, Tupperware

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Numbers, Age, Duration

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Stories, Might, Information

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.126, Penguin

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• The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Important, Messages, Truth Is

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• The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.

  Louise Erdrich

  Order, Brain, Trying

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• If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

  Anita Diament

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.

  Terry Goodkind

  Uplifting, Believe, Book

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• Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Meditation, Attention

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• One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Simple, People, Tragedy

  "God, science, and delusion". "Free Inquiry" Interview with Matt Cherry, March 22, 1999.

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hipster, Night, Mind

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

  Robert Henri

  Running, Art, Bridges

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• Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so well, what a mind thinks is as dominated by biological patterns as social patterns are dominated by biological patterns and as biological patterns are dominated by inorganic patterns. There is no direct scientific connection between mind and matter. As the atomic scientist, Niels Bohr, said, "We are suspended in language." Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, Mind, Intellectual

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• [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

  Isaac Asimov

  Light, Discovery, Illumination

  Isaac Asimov (1992). “Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos”, Plume Books

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• While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.

  Victor Hugo

  Friday, Cake, Tuesday

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1116, My Ebook Publishing House

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• She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.

  Ann Brashares

  Frustration, Imagination, Feelings

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• Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Communication, Home

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• No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

  Josh Groban

  People, Feelings, Risk

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• Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Husband, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.86, Macmillan

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