“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.” EndsWholeCharacterFeelingsRealityLostStuffLosesComedyEmotionalEmptyConnectionsViewersStrainBananasEmotional ConnectionFunny Stuff Author:Mike White
“I really comprehend the fact that some of what I have to say sounds a little weird. But the more and more I purge myself of the stuff that had my focus so turned away from God, the more I shred myself, the more I have a greater connection to God. And what I know now that I didn't know then is that's why I'm here.” KnowsLittlesFactsStuffSoundGreaterFocusConnections Author:Stephen Baldwin
“The energy that can rise in real connection is the stuff of revolution.” RealEnergyStuffRevolutionConnectionsReal Connection Author:Carol Lee Flinders
“Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.” ThinkingStillsImportantArtistSongNamesStuffConnectionsCdsTyping Author:Jason Aldean
“I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection...” KnowsWellsKindTwoHumorLightSeemsFunnyFunStuffClearFiveConnectionsTownsGodmotherLight Of My Life Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.” DoneStuffChallengesLevelsActingEmotionalHugeConnectionsOvercomingBallsGreenHurdleBeing SadEmotional Connection Author:Shia LaBeouf
“It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.” PeopleDreamStuffStrangeConnectionsRandom Stuff Author:Quentin Dupieux
“I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.” WantStillsHomeStuffObjectsConnections Author:Nate Berkus
“We were on Island Records for five or six years and we kinda just got tired of them always wanting to use our connections, all the time. It's like, they didn't really do much for us, I mean, they would give us money here and there and you know, do stuff like that but, I mean, overall, they didn't push us.” KnowsGivingYearsMeanUseStuffRecordsFiveSixConnectionsTiredIslandsHere And There Author:Jess Margera
“I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.” BeautifulMovingStuffBrainCreativeInternetProjectsHundredConnectionsSavedRingsSkeletonsCockpitFoldersInternet Connection Author:Adam Savage
“Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.” ThinkingKnowsWantWritingMindPersonsHas BeensSometimesCertainStuffForgetEffectsParticularPerspectiveReaderPagesConnectionsAssumptionCommentSurprisingEnlighteningInfluential Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsEndsStuffWonderMusic IsConnectionsAttachmentIntrigued Author:Ellie Goulding
“We need to consider ancestral cleansing. If we're willing to clear our energy fields of the ancestral energies we don't want, then we are ready to do something really interesting and beautiful which is to claim a connection with the wisdom of the kinds of ancestors we do want to be in contact with. But we can't do this until we've cleaned out the lower stuff that is hindering us.” IfsWantNeedsKindBeautifulEnergyStuffInterestingClearFieldsWillingReadyConnectionsClaimsContactAncestorReally InterestingCleansingEnergy Fields Author:Robert Moss
“I know as far as things like the Thunderbirds, there's a New Zealand connection. X-Files, my connection there... I mean, it could be zeitgeist. I mean, I'm into the paranormal. I have a podcast about cryptozoology. So it's out there that I'm into weird stuff.” KnowsMeanStuffConnectionsParanormalFilesNew ZealandZeitgeistX FilesWeird Stuff Author:Rhys Darby
“Money and stuff aren't what makes us happy. It's strong connections within families and friends, communities of people that truly care about one another.” PeopleCareStrongStuffCommunityConnectionsFamily And FriendsStrong Connection Author:Jayni Chase
“Heavy Connection is just basically about psychic stuff...it's kind of about connections that you're not normally making. It's like a fate number where you're making psychic connections that you're not really aware of but they're there.” KindStuffNumbersFateConnectionsHeavyPsychics Author:Van Morrison
“With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's done and there had been policy papers and there's been aides and there's been advisers and then there is a connection to an actual set of policies. And so, the words like have roots into actual stuff.” Has BeensDoneStuffPresidentPolicyNormalPaperRootsConnectionsBarackPapersPresident Barack ObamaAdviser Author:David Brooks
“I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are enigmatic things floating on air or are they actually shifts in policy and will they change moment by moment, day by day without any underlying connection to the actual stuff of governance? I don't know.” ThinkingKnowsWorldMomentsStuffAirPolicyTrumpConnectionsFloatingGovernanceEnigmatic Author:David Brooks
“Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.” MenWantLooksChildrenKidsWantedStuffOne ThingFeminismFiguresKingsInvolvedConnectionsHorseAncientWarriorBrutalCraveGreeceIliadAncient GreeceSpartaLoving Children Author:Stephen Marche
“I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.” PeopleThinkingGovernmentAbleYoungStrongStuffMediaConnectionsObviousDespiteThrownDemoralizedPersonal Connection Author:Thom Yorke