"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."

-- Clifton Fadiman

#Real Quotes #Real Friends Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”

Source : David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.365, Three Rivers Press
“When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.”
“I played my age. Not bad.”
“The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The mediaâ€”stenographers to power.”
“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”
“Well, Kevin Downes is the producer of Mom's Night Out. He was a fellow actor with me in the movie Courageous. He plays my police partner and we have been friends for several years. He came and helped me on Courageous and said 'Would you come help me on Mom's Night Out?'”

Source : "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

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