You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.
Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it. ' But I think what people need is the sense of not being alone. They go to MFA programs to be part of a community of people who care, and then you start caring about your friend who is trying to edit a magazine and your other friend who is stuck in the middle of her poem. There you have all kinds of things to worry about besides your own success.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me. ' But somehow you do.
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.
Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while he has left us, others are coming into the world at the same time, and probably in this our territory. There is a continuous change, an ingress of beings into the world and an egress out of it.
It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, "We're not gonna be friends until we get this done. If we don't get this done, we're never going to be friends, because if we don't get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed. "
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because we hadnt come very far, to say the least. Although Jacksons population was half white and half black, I didnt have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.
A crowd is the only way to know if something works. Telling a friend or two doesn't matter. A crowd is what tells you what works or doesn't, so I'd rather go in front of them cold and see.
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
Only a true friend would be that truly honest.
The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.
Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.
If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.