George Eliot Quotes

You have to be very careful with women friends.

I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

After Stu, I liked John and George. Then I like Pete Best. Paul I found hard to get close to.

I'm at my best when I'm talking about relationships, talking about women, talking about situations and stories.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

Human interaction is awkward and weird, even if it happens without a microphone or camera.

With some of the journalists, I've known them for years now, and I kind of consider them like my friends, so I always tend to joke around, and some people don't get it.

All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.

I find people confusing.

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

People who ask "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice, did ya there buddy?

I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.

Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

A friend will give you immediate feedback and that will be that friend's opinion. An analyst often remains quiet and you hear what you've said and you gain your own insight.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.