Sociable Quotes - Page 3

• The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.

  Thomas Mann

  Adventure, Sadness, Men

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann”, p.115, A&C Black

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• They're very sociable occasions and there's no barriers between us and the audience. It's customary that after our performances, we go out into the foyer and spend an hour or so signing autographs for the fans and having our pictures taken with them.We strongly believe that going out front to meet the fans is just as important as playing the gigs - and we all love a good natter!

  Ric Sanders

  Taken, Believe, Important

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• I don't describe myself as a sociable person now. I can be quite... you know... grumpy? Is that a word? I guess I can be a bit grumpy.

  Nick Frost

  Grumpy, Persons, Knows

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. September 2005.

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• I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Gregarious, Solitary

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

  Sam Neill

  Thoughtful, People, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I wasn't a falling-in-the-gutter type. I drank at home because it relaxed me. I was shy around new people, but after a drink or two, I became more sociable.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Fall, Home, Two

  "90-year-old Disney Legend’s Secret To Marrying A (Much) Younger Woman". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com.sg. October 3, 2016.

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• I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Hurt, Drama, School

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• I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.

  Sefi Atta

  Jobs, Hard Work, Writing

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

  Ben Macintyre

  Falling In Love, Educational, Reading

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• your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.

  Carol Bly

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from.

  Asa Larsson

  Class, People, Unemployment

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• The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It’s like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

  Ben Daniels

  Mountain, Intense, Social

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

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• I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Gay, Behaviour

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.641, Stanford University Press

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• I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

  John Simm

  People, Persons, Has Beens

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

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• Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

  Jeremy Brett

  Dark, Moon, Sides

  "he Man Who Became Sherlock Holmes - The Tortured Mind of Jeremy Brett". Book by Terry Manners, p. 212, March 20, 1997.

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• I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Jobs, Party, Hollywood

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

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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.

  B. C. Forbes

  Retirement, Business, Order

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• What am I drinking? NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  "Do You Believe in Gosh?". Live album by Mitch Hedberg, September 9, 2008.

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• HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Vices, Hermits, Folly

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.110, University of Georgia Press

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• As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a joiner.

  Johnny Carson

  Hate, Taken, Organization

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Tree, Whispering, Maple

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