Theo Paphitis Quotes

The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.

The high street is not a retail thing: it's a social thing, part of the British lifestyle. And I say that as someone who started his life on Limassol high street in Cyprus.

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.

You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.

As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

I don't really go out, 'go out' that much anymore. I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

You must try going out into the market place, where the mass of people spend their time

I love connected culture.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

In Chino Hills, everybody is cool with everybody, so I had a lot of friends. My house was kind of the hang out house, where everybody would come over.

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

The high streets I remember best were Seven Sisters Road in north London and then sunny Peckham in south London after we moved there. They were where my parents used to shop. They were great, part of being a teenager.

I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

Life would be boring without gossip.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.