“The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.”
– Galina Vishnevskaya
“A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.”
– Fawn M. Brodie
“In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.”
– Tony Garza
“I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I’m ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world’s biggest R.E.M. fan.”
– Bill Berry
“The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.”
– Atifete Jahjaga
“Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship – two of life’s major assets.”
– Eleanor Robson Belmont
“So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.”
– John Tyler
“I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy.”
– Alban Berg
“I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that’s involves business and friendship – and the business part comes to an end – things always get a little blurry.”
– Hank Haney
“To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.”
– Cornelia Otis Skinner
“They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.”
– Henry Walter Bates
“To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it’s a thrill to start a friendship even up.”
– Christopher Knight
“My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.”
– John Woo
“Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it’s a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.”
– John Mayall
“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.”
– Warren G. Harding
“My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.”
– Stephanie Tubbs Jones
“Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.”
– Black Kettle
“Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.”
– Juan Antonio Samaranch
“One of the great things personally coming to Hawai’i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.”
– Dan Fouts
“Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.”
– Juan Antonio Samaranch
“When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn’t win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I’m proud to be in this company that way.”
– Eddie Murray
“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”
– Hector Hugh Munro
“Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.”
– Greg Bear
“Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.”
– Bradley Chicho
“The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.”
– Bradley Chicho
“People instantly assume you can’t have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. – or America.”
– Isabel Lucas
“French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.”
– Ali A. Saleh
“In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.”
– Ernst Mayr
“India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.”
– Pratibha Patil
“The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.”
– Bradley Chicho