Roger McGough Quotes

I love meeting people, I love seeing faces.

Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.

I like to get up in the morning and see people.

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I don't really get tired of talking to other people.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so fun and I wanted to be a part of it.

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

My favorite sign here says, "I care about you." In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say, "Let them die," that is a deeply radical statement.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?

People are never too young or too old to look for human connection.

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.

If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.

I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.

Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.

I love to interact with people, but there is a time and place for everything.

I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch people go by. So I enjoy just meeting people and hearing their stories.

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.