She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
— Toni Morrison
The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.
— Tom Anderson
I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that.
— Tim Tebow
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
— Tim Allen
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
— Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
— Thomas Fuller
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
— Thomas Aquinas
People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.
— Thiruvalluvar
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
— Theophile Gautier
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
— Taylor Swift
Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter.
— Tanya Saracho
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
— Sydney Smith
I served as the chairman of the India-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group for three years, during which I also had the pleasure of visiting Israel.
— Sushma Swaraj
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
— Susan Glaspell
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
— Sting
Henley's one of my favorite singers. I've maintained a friendship with Don over the years.
— Steve Lukather
The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.
— Toni Collette
MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
— Tim Finn
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
— Thomas Moore
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.
— Theodore Zeldin
As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
— Taylor Handley
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
— Suzanne Brockmann
It's been increasingly hard to make small stories about female friendship, and, definitely, those stories don't have any shot of getting a theatrical release.
— Susanna Fogel
It's - I mean, the Olympics, what is it? It's an international competition to foster friendship and - and competition across - across the planet, and I think that's exactly what the International Space Station is.
— Sunita Williams
Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
— Steven Van Zandt
Stretching back nearly three decades, Brian Williams and I have forged an enduring friendship. It all began in 1986 at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia and has resulted in a set of noteworthy experiences, amazing successes, and a bunch of trips to NASCAR speedways.
— Steve Capus
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
— Tom Lehrer
I not only enjoy a really great friendship with both my girls but also a close mother-daughter bond as well.
— Tina Knowles
Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.
— Tim Cope
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
— Thomas A. Edison
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
— Thalia
Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it's not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it's an unhealthy connection.
— Tara Stiles
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!
So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex as any romantic or family dynamics, and yet there's a dearth of resonant, grounded films about platonic bonds in American films.
If you aren't respected by someone, how can the friendship with them be valued?
— Sudeep
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
— Steven Pinker
