Quotes About Gregarious

#1. A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Susan Cain

#2. is the mountain that lends its gregarious power to the multiple elements of this place.

David Abram

#3. I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

William S. Burroughs

#4. Ryan was not only gregarious but also a happily married inamorato! (Around the facility, when the other coaches teased him about this episode, Ryan would retort affably, "I'm the only guy in history who gets in a sex scandal with his wife!")

Nicholas Dawidoff

#5. And August was a force. Charming, gregarious,

Sara Gruen

#6. You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.

Scott Turow

#7. At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone ... I became a loner in my own mind ... I decided I'd rather be alone.

Andy Warhol

#8. The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.

Francis Galton

#9. The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx

#10. Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.

Ketch Secor

#11. I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.

Michael Badnarik

#12. I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.

Neil Peart

#13. I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts ... I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

Jonathan Lethem

#14. Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

John Ruskin

#15. nor did he dream that such persons were as lonely eagles sailing solitary in the azure sky far above the earth and its swarming freight of gregarious life.

Jack London

#16. Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America ...

Florence King

#17. In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.'

Susan Cain

#18. It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

Guy Ritchie

#19. The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.

Phyllis McGinley

#20. In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.

Rob Lowe

#21. My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

Hugh Jackman

#22. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

Jerry Weintraub

#23. A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Thomas Mann

#24. We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal - the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight.

Susan Cain

#25. I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

America Ferrera

#26. It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

Albert Finney

#27. My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.

Diana Quick

#28. I liked him fine. I like everyone. I'm a happy, cheerful, and gregarious person." "No, you're really not.

Lee Child

#29. I'm sarcastic and facetious. It's hard to find those people on first encounter. I can be nice, but I don't want nice friends. I want funny, gregarious, sarcastic, and smart friends.

Rachel Bertsche

#30. I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.

David Gilmour

#31. My trouble is that my intelligence is materialistic, agnostic, pessimistic and solitary, while my heart is incurably tender, romantic, loving and gregarious.

T.H. White

#32. The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

Moby

#33. I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious ... and bathed.

Evan Sayet

#34. I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

Mamie Gummer

#35. Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.

Alexandra Robbins

#36. I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

Fran Lebowitz

#37. Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

George Santayana

#38. Man is a gregarious creature, we are told, a social being. Does that mean he is also a herd animal? ... Are men no better than sheep or cattle, that they must live always in view of one another in order to feel a sense of safety? I can't believe it!

Edward Abbey

#39. I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

Simon Callow

#40. For Quoyle was a failure at loneliness, yearned to be gregarious, to know his company was a pleasure to others.

Annie Proulx

#41. My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

Stephen Mangan

#42. Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.

Susan Cain

#43. I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.

Laura Linney

#44. I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

Al Pacino

#45. Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.

Betty Friedan

#46. The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Northrop Frye

#47. Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

Nelson Mandela

#48. Now, having left cities behind me, turned
Away forever from the strange, gregarious
Huddling of men by stones, I find those various
Great towns I knew fused into one, burned
Together in the fire of my despising ...

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#49. Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do ... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.

Burton Rascoe

#50. We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

William James

#51. Earth does not understand her child,
Who from the loud gregarious town
Returns, depleted and defiled,
To the still woods, to fling him down.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#52. When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Barbra Streisand

#53. Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

Charles Dickens

#54. I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

Jack Nicklaus

#55. I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Karen Armstrong

#56. I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Gabriel Byrne

#57. Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Katori Hall

#58. I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.

Lindsay Duncan

#59. I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

Charlotte Rampling

#60. For the first time in my life, which had for years been sometimes witlessly gregarious, I discovered the pain of unwanted solitude. Like a felon suddenly thrown into solitary confinement, I found myself feeding off the unburned fat of inward resources I barely knew I possessed.

William Styron

#61. Humans, the most intelligent, gregarious(in biology), productive creatures on this planet but also the most selfish, destructive, heartless, insincere, insatiable creatures.

Myself

#62. Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous

Jeremy Brett

#63. My mother is brilliant but emotional and very much gregarious and connected to people. My father was brilliant but focused and driven and very narrow-casted.

Justin Trudeau

#64. By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.

Bertrand Russell

#65. Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

Jayne Meadows

#66. Although one might seem relatively gregarious, the real self is at the desk," she said. "It is a trial for relationships, for friendships. Every writer dreads losing the connection to the work, the momentum, and to keep it, you can't truly be sociable.

Edna O'Brien

#67. Gregarious hermit. I wanted the warmth of spontaneous connection and the freedom to be left alone.

Gail Caldwell

#68. I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

Dan Fogelberg

#69. I was a major fan of people in the industry, I was a major movie fan and I was just thrown into it. I was never a gregarious kind of a young man. I was very frightened. It was difficult to divorce myself from myself.

Tab Hunter

#70. Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

Stella Benson

#71. I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Norman MacCaig

#72. My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

Richard Simmons

#73. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#74. I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.

Sutton Foster

#75. The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

Ivor Novello

#76. I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

Niall Ferguson

#77. Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#78. We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.

Fennel Hudson

#79. We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#80. Scully was appallingly gregarious - so outgoing she was practically incoming.

Karen Joy Fowler

#81. I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

Peter O'Toole

#82. Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

Kenneth Tynan