Friends Who Know You Well Quotes

“You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.”

— Trenton Lee Stewart

“Jason, as much as I'd like to believe that we're friends, I know I can't count on you.”

— Amber Dermont

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

— Richard Bach

“Little children never get frozen by their selfishness. Like the disciples, they come just as they are, totally self-absorbed. They seldom get it right. As parents or friends, we know all that. In fact, we are delighted (most of the time!) to find out what is on their little hearts. We don't scold them for being self-absorbed or fearful. That is just who they are.”

— Paul Miller

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”

— Sarah Vowell

“Happiness is hanging with friends who know you way more than you'd care to share.”

— Todd Stocker

“I have friends who know everything there is to know about life except how to enjoy it”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“I figured we could just be friends, you know?" His voice was low and throaty as he added, "No harm in that, right?" He shook his head as he pressed the heels of his hands into his eyes before running them up through his hair. His eyes flew open, but they were bleary and unfocused. "But every time I talk to you, I like you more and more, and every time I see you ... . it's so fucking hard, Leah.”

— Priscilla Glenn

“Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.”

— Arthur Rubinstein

“I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Seinfeld,' 'Friends,' you know, 'Three and a Half Men.'”

— Roseanne Barr

“Just Friends I know that I don't own you, and perhaps I never will, so my anger when you're with her, I have no right to feel. I know that you don't owe me, and I shouldn't ask for more; I shouldn't feel so let down, all the times when you don't call. What I feel-I shouldn't show you, so when you're around I won't; I know I've no right to feel it but it doesn't mean I don't.”

— Lang Leav

“You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids.”

— Harvey Weinstein

“I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.”

— Jack Osbourne

“Well, my life hasn't really changed ... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know?”

— Willow Shields

“Erik said: "But the Aryan race must be superior-we rule the world!" "Your Nazi friends don't know any history," Father said. "The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids when Germans were living in caves. Arabs ruled the world in the Middle Ages-the Muslims were doing algebra when German princes could not write their own names. It's nothing to do with race.”

— Ken Follett

“If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.”

— Daniela Bobadilla

“I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.”

— Robin Marantz Henig

“Well, a marriage between Friends is  ... between the Friends marrying. No clergyman, I mean, and no specific prayer or service. The two Friends marry each other, rather than it being considered a sacrament administered by a priest or the like. But it does need to be done before witnesses-other Friends, you know,”

— Diana Gabaldon

“One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.”

— Salman Rushdie

“I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.”

— Spike Jonze

“Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.”

— Loretta Lynn

“The public interest always surprises me. I come to work in these rooms with no windows. At night I go home. I just live my life. I guess I just don't think much about whether people are going to watch. Most of my friends don't know much about what I do, and we don't talk about it. I have a different life away from work. Which is fine, because my work can get pretty intense.”

— Dave Goelz

“And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? - who understand that things are only worth what you're willing to give up for them.”

— Rick Elice

“Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.”

— Gloria Steinem

“If hard things ultimately have a purpose, then they aren't so hard anymore. Therefore, I listed what I had learned: 1. It's easy to forget that people can think you think what you don't think. 2. Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't. 3. A writer's greatest reward is naming something unnamed that many people are feeling. A writer's greatest punishment is being misunderstood. The same words can do both.”

— Gloria Steinem

“If anyone else comes after your friends, you know what you have to do. Crush them. Make them an example that no one will forget. Hellequin's turned into a nursery rhyme to be told to naughty children-you need to make sure it's the adults who start checking under the bed.”

— Steve McHugh

“Best friends always know when the other's lying.”

— Wendy Mass

“Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I don't know what's going on, but I really like it." And you really didn't know what to make of a lot of people, and now it's changed and people aren't really talking about that. Now it's like you're watching West Wing or Friends, you know the characters and you're like, "What in the world is going to happen?"”

— Alex Graves

“Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.”

— Gram Parsons

“I think the people in your life are the people that - when you can make other people happy and you can give things to your family and your friends, you know, that's really obviously what life is all about. But it doesn't have to be children. It doesn't have to be a husband. It can be whatever you make it.”

— Chelsea Handler

“A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.”

— Clarence H. Burns

“Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.”

— Agnes Repplier

“Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.”

— Sarah Vowell

“What's helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.”

— Drew Barrymore

“So when this opportunity came up through Elisabeth Murdoch and her company Shine, to be an executive producer and actually be part of the show, I liked the idea because I like the word mentor. I don't want to judge someone. I like sharing my knowledge with my girls, and anything they ask me I'll try to do to help them. Any of my real friends who know me, know that's how I really am.”

— Naomi Campbell

“I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.”

— Joan Collins

“I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.”

— Will Rogers

“My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."”

— Chris Rock

“The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.”

— Criss Jami