Graham Coxon Quotes

It's always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.

When you - when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn't know before.

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.

Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

In all of my career, the style is still the same, and that is of a friend, just sitting and talking.

Memories come out only when you spend time with a person.

People can connect in different ways. If you do a rope course with someone you otherwise wouldn't meet and you share this incredible challenge, then you have perhaps formed a bond that could last forever.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

I try to make really close bonds with people.

As you get older, sometimes you lose touch with people you were friends with in high school and college. But when you've been part of a legacy together, you should still find a way to see eye to eye.

There are people I haven't seen for a year and we will do a show or something and when we hang out it'll be this instant endearment. I'm like, 'Our lives, the cosmos, are intersecting, and this will bring us closer together again. I have no doubt.'

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time.

Time is so much a part of what makes you close to people.

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

People feel like they grew up with me.

When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.