#company

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#imagination #matter #part #poor #understanding

You got to be careful of the company you keep. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#careful #company #got #keep #you

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#more #more people #people #running #serve

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's. ↗

— Karl Urban

#always #back #capable #company #early

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#close #company #corner #down #ever

So it takes years to make a solid company. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#make #solid #takes #years

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#asked #come #company #could #desperation

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#because #company #drawn #each #fellow