From there to here and here to there funny things are everywhere.
I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
I never said most of the things I said.
I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction obviously but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
Marriage for a woman at least hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
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.
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
When I was growing up my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is) and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
To like and dislike the same things this is what makes a solid friendship.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.
A lot of the powerful religious leaders from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable and the value of friendship and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things more precious than getting your own way more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
Sixth grade was a big time in my childhood of hoops and friendship and coming up with funny things.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.