My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Working with people the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship then it will take care of itself.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Ray Bradbury is for many reasons the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be should be and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible willing to tolerate and to teach happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

To some it may be a thrill to be known to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

When Ted Williams was here inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago he said he must have earned it because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way I'm proud to be in this company that way.

My films are always concerned with family friendship honor and patriotism.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship understanding and cooperation.

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction obviously but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.