Ivor Novello Quotes

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

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

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Isolation is no longer possible or desirable.

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.

I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'

I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.