Intimate Quotations | Page 4

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

I'm not sure of what the potential power of the Web is, but it is something that is here to stay, so it needs to be dealt with...It's kinda cool, though, for the fans ... because it makes what is basically a huge worldwide venue into an intimate one-on-one. I don't know of many concert halls that can do that.

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

I crown thee king of intimate delights,Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness.

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

It has this scope that's outrageous, but yet at the core, these very intimate scenes, so that alone is interesting.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.

We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.