“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
“The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.”
— Mohammed Morsi
“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
“In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called ‘Welcome to Lostville.’ One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for ‘Blood on the Tracks.’”
— Pete Hamill
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.”
— J. Paul Getty
“As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.”
— Dean Smith
“From the Twitter responses we got with ‘Best Friends Forever’ and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is.”
— Lennon Parham
“Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.”
— Kenneth Branagh
“006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.”
— Sean Bean
“No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.”
— Max von Sydow
“The knot of intimacy at the center of ‘Ten Thousand Saints’ is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.”
— Stacey D’Erasmo
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“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
“Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn’t a friendship when – as, for example, it’s me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn’t matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.”
— Roman Abramovich
“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.”
— George Santayana
“A friendship between Germany and Israel didn’t always seem natural.”
— Reuven Rivlin
“There are a lot of musicians I’ve met on Twitter where it was like, ‘Hey, I like your music’ – and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.”
— Grimes
“I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.”
— Daniel Tammet
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.”
— William Glasser
“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I’m not going to diss them. But you don’t really have any guarantees that what you’re reading wasn’t written out of friendship or spite.”
— Michael Dirda
“Value your friendship. Value your relationships.”
— Barbara Bush
“I didn’t like England. I couldn’t take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren’t understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.”
— Jane Campion
“Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.”
— Austin O’Malley
“The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.”
— Bradley Chicho
“One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.”
— H. L. Mencken
“I only understand friendship or scorched earth.”
— Roger Ailes