Ivor Novello Quotes

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

I like being around people.

Our species likes being social.

I remember in grade school having a group of friends and enjoying that sense of community, enjoying living in an imaginary world that wasn't just by yourself or your sibling but a whole group of people.

We as humans, we're not solitary people, we're like dogs, we like to live in packs and know about one another. And, if anything, fame is people trying to attain community on a mass scale, because when you become famous wherever you go people know about what you've done and what you're about to do.

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.

I usually only play with very close friends.

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

I love people and I love to be around people.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

No experience exists unless it's a shared one.