Feeler Quotes

• Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Rocks

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1087, Delphi Classics

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• it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

  Wallace Stegner

  Mistake, Thinking, Easy

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.362, Penguin

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• Aren't rumors great. Anyone can start them. They're a wonderful way to put out feelers. It's like getting the benefits of a publicist without paying one.

  Michelle Beadle

  Rumor, Benefits, Way

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• They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.

  Josh Holloway

  Love You, Names, Marketing

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• We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird; but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the significance of the universe, God can be no more pleased with our knowledge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dreaming of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied in the colors.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Faith, Dream, Stars

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

  Keri Hulme

  Eye, Hands, Sacred Things

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.71, LSU Press

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• I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.

  Charlize Theron

  Relationship

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  It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Dream, Artist, World

  Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

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• When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.

  Rupert Spira

  Shining, Feelings, Seers

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• Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Writing, Psychology

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• It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.

  Laurence Sterne

  Humor, Wish, Half

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.395

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• Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Cat, Animal, Numbers

  Lloyd Alexander (1956). “My Five Tigers”

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• My boobs are so low I had to put curb feelers on my nipples!

  Joan Rivers

  Nipples, Lows, Curb

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.14, Penguin

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• Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Law, Moral Development, Order

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• Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

  Paul Westerberg

  Light, Everything Happens For A Reason, Band

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• I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion.

  Sharon Olds

  Notebook, Rocks, Pockets

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