Howard Stringer Quotes

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I don't have any social life or anything.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I don't belong much anywhere.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I feel like an alien sometimes, where I don't feel like I belong anywhere.

Here in Canada, I haven't people, I haven't family, I haven't friends. So I'm not happy here.

We moved around a lot when I was younger. I never really felt at home until we moved to Canada, but even then, I always felt strangely out of place and alien.

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I don't have a lot of friends.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.