I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.

- Bob Newhart

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

- Claire Tomalin

I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.

- Christopher Buckley

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

- Charles Spurgeon

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

- Carrie Fisher

You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

- Bruce Weber

If you like affection, then about one in three squirrels makes an excellent companion.

- Bernhard Goetz

I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.

- Bhumibol Adulyadej

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

- Buddha

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

- Brennan Manning

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.

- Barry Ritholtz

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

- Arthur Helps

It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in 'Mea Maxima Culpa.'

- Alex Gibney

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

- Anna Freud

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

- Avi

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

- Audrey Hepburn

Most people would rather give than get affection.

- Aristotle

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

- Andres Iniesta

When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu