Communication Quote by Alain de Botton

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours…

— Rebecca West

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic…

— Avey Tare

I never saw myself as this big socialite, but from an outsider point of view, there was a lot going on.

— Tinsley Mortimer

There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending…

— Lynn Coady

Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I said, "Thank…

— Etgar Keret

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

— Geoffrey Rush

“In 1956, two psychologists, Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, would conclude that television’s representation of celebrities was carefully constructed to create an “illusion of…

— tim wu

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

— Jane Austen

I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of…

— Derek Blasberg

This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did was tantalisingly…

— Robert Harris

I feel like I grew up in quite a public way in front of audiences.

— Mae Martin

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

— Vin Diesel