Lisa Kleypas Quotes

It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.

I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.

I learned how not to be alone in the playground.

A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

Family is anybody you sit down to a meal with - and very often, after college, your family is your friends or the people you work with.

I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Where I came from had a lot of friends. A big social circle.

When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

Making new friends is tough. You don't really know who to trust when you're away from people that you love a lot.

I hear a lot of young people talking about the need to network. I think that is true, and I think that building a network makes sense. But I also think that there is another way to approach it, and that is to try to make friends. Just try to make a lot of friends.

One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move.

I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.

I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

It takes me a while to come out of myself and get to know people.