Daniel Humm Quotes

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

Our best thoughts come from others.

I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they're incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward.

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening.

Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.

Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing.

My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

In a perfect world, if I can get conversations done at a batting cage, there's exactly the place I want to be.

To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long international flights when we're trying to sleep on the plane - we're total strangers, but we're sleeping next to each other.

Anyone in any part of the country will connect with 'Laagi'… because it has very strong emotions.

Through music, I think we can inspire each other.

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

The essence of Yungblud is connection. That's all I want to do: connect with people.

There are so many things calling you toward that computer or TV. You forget, we're a family. We're all supposed to spend time together and talk.