“I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsTryingKindTermSilenceMy FriendsToleranceMessNew YorkersTrying To ChangeSmall TalkThinking Deeply Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.” PeopleKnowsLongTermProjectsMy FriendsLong TermHanging OutDreamy Author:Tilda Swinton
“It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.” PeopleTryingFirstsHardAgeReadingTermMy OwnActivityMy FriendsTwentiesBackgroundsRelateGermanyHolocaustDiscoveringSurvivedNazi Author:Anne Waldman
“What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my friend Animal Prufrock wherein one is identified not by what they supposedly "are" but rather by what they are into. Which brings us to the terms hemosexual, shemosexual, and mosexual.” WayTermAnimalMy FriendsSexualityLgbtSchemesLabeling Author:Ani DiFranco
“I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.” StatesTermRealizingBecomingShotsMy FriendsContradictionCampusKentNational Guard Author:Surya Das
“I'm a person who's been in a long-term relationship. It's not surprising that a lot of my friends - whether they're in same-sex relationships or not, whether they're married officially or just in a long-term relationship - have really interesting and various stages in their relationship. My life is looking at these friendships and saying, "Wait a minute, isn't this something really interesting? How can I explore this?"” PersonsLongLife IsSexWaitingTermInterestingMinutesStageMarriedMy FriendsVariousLong TermSurprisingReally InterestingLong Term RelationshipSex Relationships Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my family, my friends, the values of personal responsibility and universality of freedom, and "to whom much is given, much is required" - haven't changed [since presidency].” WellsKindMeanPersonsValuesGivenTermResponsibilityHavensChangedCreatingMy FriendsMy FamilyPrioritiesPresidencyPersonal ResponsibilityUniversalityReinvention Author:George W. Bush
“I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensJobsAmericaBitsSidesPresidentTermResultsTalkingLeaderMediaTrumpVictoryPoliticianLaughterMy FriendsStealingMinistersOppositionAustraliaImmigrantsPrimeElitesPrime MinisterAmazing ThingsReally Amazing Author:Richard Glover
“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.” ChildrenTermBattleMy FriendsLet MeMonstersSkullsDresdenKarrin Murphy Book:Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely.” ThinkingMindChildrenLongSometimesSchoolLawTermClearPlansConditionsReadyAmbitionMy FriendsLonelySuperiorsLong TermLaw School Book:A Gate at the Stairs Source: A Gate at the Stairs