Intimacy Quotations

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents.

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Ultimately, intimacy is more fulfilling than accomplishments. High achievers have an empty spiritual life. I think God made us so that our greatest joy is found in relationship.

When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now Ive conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.

Some of it is built in with the snow culture here. Their vocabulary is reflective of that reality. When they are out on the hills, there's an intimacy they have with that environment.

simply because if you look at the music business, there aren't a lot of new artists that can fill up an arena. Realistically, some of the best music today is (by) people like Norah Jones or Alicia Keys (who) are more suited (to) the intimacy of a theater.

She just had a very quiet way of speaking, and it really engaged you because she was so soft-spoken; you had to listen carefully. There was a kind of intimacy that you immediately had.

She is a very serious, down-to-earth, no-nonsense artist. She has always talked about intimacy and quietness in her work, and yet she is also the only artist of her generation who has tackled these huge public projects. That is a very rare balance.

Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It's like speed dating. You've got a fast-track to social intimacy with a whole bunch of people.

I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.

I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home.

Francesca's productions are always beautifully balanced between the intimacy of the characters and the sweep of the epic, and I think that she will use the symbols of America brilliantly.

I don't think he wants that level of intimacy or sees the value in it, ... He's just the worker. He's always been the worker. Now he's the worker and the CEO.

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites--and escapes.

I absolutely believed in Jake next to Patricia, and luckily they just seemed to have this terrific chemistry together. They both act in the same range. We do shoot an awful lot of scenes where they are in their underwear and their hair is messed up and the bed's unmade - creating that intimacy is what they are both great at.

He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.

He is possibly the most accomplished screen actor in the country. He has an intimacy with the camera which is rare in the world. He is also very reliable, is always good on every take.

Keith and I thought we had really good communication but we hadn't had to have this kind of communication about our intimacy. We so often equate intimate relationships with ability to have intercourse, and what we try to help couples understand is that intimacy is not totally equated with intercourse. Intimacy -- as we all know but don't usually put into practice -- can happen in many, many ways.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust.

Physical intimacy between two people of the same sex is not condoned in the Scripture.

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

We really weren't able to manage those contacts with the intimacy that we would have liked.

We really wanted to conceive a baby in the intimacy of our bedroom. After an unsuccessful year, we knew we would have to seek help again.

Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special.

This scene is done using a single sustained mastershot in order to allow the actors the most conducive environment for intimacy and intensity and in order to best communicate what happens in the film's pivotal scene. It cannot be cut without compromising the central scene of the narrative and thus rendering the mystery of the film incomprehensible. It remains more than a bit absurd to me that this scene would garner an R if shot exactly the same but from just the torso up but becomes an NC-17 because the mastershot reveals full bodies.

This scene is done using a single sustained master shot in order to allow the actors the most conducive environment for intimacy and intensity, and in order to best communicate what happens in the film's pivotal scene, ... It cannot be cut without compromising the central scene of the narrative and thus rendering the mystery of the film incomprehensible.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

to say it's a dream come true doesn't do it justice, because I've never dreamed this big. The film and play stand side by side -- you get the advantage of more intimacy in the film's close-ups, and the advantage of live rock onstage.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

With revived momentum, enhanced international standing and renewed intimacy with the United States, we are at an extremely critical point in time,

We somewhat subscribe to the adage that you don't build the church for Easter Sunday. One of the best experiences is to have a ballpark be as intimate as it can be. We believe there's a connection between intimacy and the number of seats that are occupied.

When a man and woman share the love of cigars, it creates a unique intimacy

We imprint and project on songs what we want so that they become more important to us. We imprint intimacy in the songs, give them a narrative separate from and parallel to what the author's intent was. In that way, we make the songs symbolic of our own relationships.

As the festival grows each year, we try hard to keep intimacy at the heart of it.

The seat's designed to provide a feeling of privacy, but you're in a cabin with 28 other passengers, ... To say it's designed for intimacy implies more than what we intend. I'm sure our passengers will be more than appropriate as they always are.

The stage opening alone, with an increase in height from 12 feet to 28 feet, allows us to pursue productions that require two-story settings. Even though the size has increased, we've captured the intimacy of the actor-audience relationship that was appreciated in the smaller Experimental Theater.