#relationship

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#big #collectively #i #individual #like

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#conversation #establishing #language #most #negotiating

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#biggest #biggest mistake #conversation #listen #mistake

I thought I was dreaming and I dreamed. ↗

— Марко Соколовић

#hope #love-hurts #relationships #truth #dreams

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#family-relationships #society #sociology #family

The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#any #character #control #dr #fairly

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#ask #closer #confidential #entitled #less

I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#because #been #definite #every #generous

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small. ↗

— James Laughlin

#because #book #cases #close #close relationship

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#daughter #everything #part #relationship #share