Patton Oswalt Quotes

None of my friends are big posters - we're old school. We text, phone and meet up and have a beer or have a curry.

People en masse have lost the ability to go out there and meet people in real life.

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to talk to strangers. I got excited about the fifth time I'd see the same person in the same bodega. I loved getting to know a certain clerk or barista. It took on a whole big meaning for me because of that atomization that suburban people do start to feel.

It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

I will say, though, that San Francisco is a very friendly city. It's the kind of place where people smile at you and you can strike up conversations on the street, so there's always an adjustment when I come back to New York. If I smile at someone on the street in New York, then they think there's something up - like, "Why is she smiling?"

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.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.

This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of step back and watch others.

TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.

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.

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.