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  • I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.

    Hurt   Drama   School  
  • I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.

  • The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

    Art   Science   Branches  
    Sir William Blackstone (1860). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books”, p.19
  • We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts - which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts - in other words, one out of every two or three people you know.

    Mean   Sight   Two  
    "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". Book by Susan Cain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2012.
  • We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.

    Book   Reading   Writing  
  • For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

    Death   Heart   Sleep  
  • Being sociable is a sacrifice, as I see it. I really don't like to be, but it is necessary and worth it.

    Source: heathenharvest.org
  • Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

    Real   Joyful   Exciting  
  • Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

    Kings   Party   People  
  • Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

    Men   Animal   Together  
    John Gay (1791). “The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera”, p.73
  • I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.

    Shy   Quiet   Kind  
    "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.
  • We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

    Sane   Sociable  
    Christian Science Monitor, March 5, 1979.
  • Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

    Source: collider.com
  • The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It’s like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

    Wisdom   Luck   Familiar  
  • It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.373, Penguin
  • My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

    Mom   Dad   People  
  • She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

    Uncles   Kids   Night  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

  • You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love.

  • "Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

    "You're Welcome" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. April 16, 2012.
  • The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

    Song   Nice   Giving  
    "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.
  • They're very sociable occasions and there's no barriers between us and the audience. It's customary that after our performances, we go out into the foyer and spend an hour or so signing autographs for the fans and having our pictures taken with them.We strongly believe that going out front to meet the fans is just as important as playing the gigs - and we all love a good natter!

  • So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.

    Learning   Cutting   Math  
    James Joseph Sylvester (1877). “Address Delivered by J.J. Sylvester, F.R.S. (corresponding Member of the Institute of France), Professor of Mathematics, at Johns Hopkins University on Commemoration Day, February 22, 1877”
  • I wasn't a falling-in-the-gutter type. I drank at home because it relaxed me. I was shy around new people, but after a drink or two, I became more sociable.

    Fall   Home   Two  
    "90-year-old Disney Legend’s Secret To Marrying A (Much) Younger Woman". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com.sg. October 3, 2016.
  • Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

    1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 4, sc.2, l.12-13.
  • The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

    Heart   Men   Emotion  
  • He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.

    Government   Self   Data  
    Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.444, Macmillan
  • Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

  • Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

    Long   Pelicans   Prime  
    James Montgomery (1827). “The Pelican Island, and other poems”, p.49
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