“And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.”
– Margaret Cavendish
“Watching John Lasseter’s films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he’s doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.”
– Hayao Miyazaki
“That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.”
– Randy West
“I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.”
– Jimmy Carl Black
“What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.”
– Andrew Sullivan
“The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.”
– Armistead Maupin
“We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.”
– Dave Blood
“I’ve got many close friends, but there’s an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.”
– Warren Christopher
“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn’t want to kill it.”
– Max Jacob
“Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.”
– Pope Benedict XVI
“You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.”
– Marilyn Hacker
“I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace’s isn’t such a stretch.”
– Debra Messing
“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
“The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.”
– Jasmine Guy
“I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.”
– Elizabeth Berkley
“Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty – attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.”
– Bradley Chicho
“The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.”
– William Shenstone
“There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.”
– Carol Alt
“My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.”
– Georg Brandes
“One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.”
– Marcelene Cox
“There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.”
– Kenny Rogers
“During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.”
– Paul Getty
“Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.”
– Namie Amuro
“I play- it’s kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what’s their friendship like, and what’s their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.”
– Joan Cusack
“For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he’s another creative person who works as hard as I do.”
– John Frusciante
“Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.”
– Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.”
– Vicente Fox
“Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.”
– William Wycherley
“Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I’ve been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.”
– Trey Anastasio
“One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
– Brooks Adams