I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, ‘I love X, but… ‘ more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them. – Sloane Crosley
I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach. – Tancredo Neves
I once choked on a chip at a friend’s birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I’d broken my collarbone coughing. – Stella Young
I was a Valley girl; I hung out, and through a photographer friend. I met Peter Douglas, who was one of Kirk Douglas’s kids. He introduced me to Sam Spiegel. – Theresa Russell
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it. – Trevor Donovan
I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can’t get over it. – Talulah Riley
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody. – William Ernest Henley
I’m an awfully loyal friend. Once I’ve started a relationship with someone, it’s like they are syrup and I’m a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak. – Warren Farrell
Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader’s commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is ‘federal.’ Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds. – Timothy Noah
In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. – Sophie Swetchine
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross. – Thomas Malthus
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. – Sophocles
Every single instance of a friend’s insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. – William Shenstone
I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mostly grew up there. I decided I wanted to become an actor when I was 8 years old. I literally heard a friend on the playground bragging about how he was taking acting classes and thought, ‘Oh! That’s what I’m supposed to be doing!’ – Sarah Steele
I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It’s my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot. – Sharon Van Etten
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to – look the other way. – Ugo Betti
In your darkest moments of despair, a friend’s hand on yours will get you through the worst. – Taya Kyle