I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.
The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
Juli Baker: Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.
In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.
