#friend

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#being #career #center #change #changed

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#buy #class #enemy #friends #got

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#always #fantasy #four #friend #going

This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ... ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#friendship #art

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made? ↗

— Walter Murch

#beg #borrow #cards #credit #credit cards

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#group #had #i #know #like

The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs escape through the opening, taking flight. It's as if someone has dumped rubies from heaven. Soon they will land on the plants in search of bollworm eggs. But right now they are magic-red ribbons flying over our heads, weaving against the pink sky, dancing up there with Mozart. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #spirituality #vietnam-war #age

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#become #dust #friends #gather

I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working. ↗

— Les Paul

#friends #going #i #keep #keep going

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. ↗

— Joseph Parry

#change #friendships #stood #surely #test