All Quotes

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
‐‐ Bernard Williams

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
‐‐ Dave Matthews

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
‐‐ St. Jerome

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
‐‐ Diogenes

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
‐‐ Jim Morrison

A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain't support, I don't know what is.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
‐‐ Ted Danson

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
‐‐ Frank Crane

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
‐‐ Henry Van Dyke

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
‐‐ Edward Young

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
‐‐ King Solomon

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
‐‐ Carson Daly

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.
‐‐ Donna Summer

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.
‐‐ Christine Lahti

A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

A friend of mine from New York asked me what I want to do, and I responded with, 'I want to make movies.' He responded with, 'Guess what? They're not making movies on Martha's Vineyard.' Literally ten minutes later, I was packing my bags.
‐‐ Austin Stowell

A friend of mine had died, and I went for an audition. It was weird and cathartic: the producer was very excited about the piece, but my brain wasn't working, and it all seemed really pointless and fickle. I told them I didn't want to be there any more, and left. It was the most terrifying and empowering audition experience I've had.
‐‐ Darren Boyd

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.
‐‐ Kesha

A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.
‐‐ Ryan Seacrest

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.
‐‐ Stan Mikita

A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.
‐‐ Owain Yeoman

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
‐‐ Frank Ocean

A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer Matthew Vaughn and suggested I adapt it for the screen.
‐‐ Jane Goldman

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.
‐‐ Donald E. Westlake

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.
‐‐ Lisa Loeb

A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke.
‐‐ Kevin McCloud

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
‐‐ Kate Clinton

A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.
‐‐ Marvin Sapp

A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.
‐‐ Jane Green

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.
‐‐ Charlie Daniels

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson

A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it.
‐‐ Avicii

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
‐‐ Levon Helm

A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard