Felicity Jones Quotes

Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it’s texting or emailing or Facebooking, there’s a kind of distance between the participants.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

It's amazing how little you can see people but still stay in regular contact.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.

When you give people ability to stay connected with all the people they care about, and you make it so they can express new things about themselves or in communication with other people who they care about, then you just open up new possibilities. You make it so people can stay connected in ways that they couldn't before.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time).

I've said this before, but I think one of the reason so many of the cartoonists I know have become friends is because the Internet is a much more cooperative space.

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

I'm on Grindr, Scruff, Match.com. That's the way everyone meets these days, three of my friends have got married after meeting on Grindr.

Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.

Adele texts me all the time and keeps me in check.

We Skype all the time - me and my brothers, and especially me and Dani. Anytime we're apart from the person we're with, we're always trying to be in touch and call.

Human interaction is not a simple thing.

I think people are really desperate for conversations. I'm really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is sort of expunging our attention spans.

If your loved ones are far away, and they're uploading pictures, you feel like that's enough: these loose strands through email, through social media, are going to supply this connection you have with that person. And I think that's keeping us isolated and lonely in a way that's very dangerous because we're unaware of it.

Perhaps the people of Twitter are more amenable to your babbling than your immediate family, but that doesn't necessarily make digital communication a beneficial distraction when we have an immediate social environment.

I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction

Tweeting happens to be a modern day form of communication. I mean, you can like it or not like it. I have, between Facebook and Twitter, I have almost 25 million people. It's a very effective way of communication.

I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.