Standoffishness Quotes

#1. There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're just so much warmer with each other. But there's this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there's a standoffishness.

Todd Phillips

#2. There must be some middle ground between broken hearts and pure standoffishness.

Kathleen Kimmel

#3. A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

Tim Cahill

#4. With the advent of recorded music in 1878, the nature of the places in which music was heard changed.

David Byrne

#5. Proving yourself is a dangerous trap.

Richard Carlson

#6. [T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey.

Alan W. Watts

#7. Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.

Santosh Kalwar

#8. Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.

Barbara Demick