Intimate Quotes - Page 13

• Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

  Kevin James

  Intimate Relationships, Nervous, Excited

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.

  Joan Jett

  Nightlife, Play, People

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• When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

  Billy Joel

  Art, Portraits, Looks

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• To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

  Angelina Jolie

  Forgiveness, Mother, Morning

  "'Do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman?'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. June 6, 2005.

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• As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

  Jacques Lacan

  Lines, May, Dimensions

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• I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

  Adam Lambert

  Beautiful, Crush, Intimate Relationships

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• Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  True Love, Blessed, Long

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• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

  Ian Mcewan

  Children, Groups, Close Friends

  Ian McEwan, Ryan Roberts (2010). “Conversations with Ian McEwan”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, Opportunity, Desire

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.10, Bantam

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Revelations, Young

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.

  Dorianne Laux

  Spiritual, Art, Memories

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Sick, Insanity

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• The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Justice, Principles

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• Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all—while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.

  Richard Matheson

  Real, Objectivity, Blood

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• ..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Lying, Intimate Moments, Silence

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• For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Serious Things, Has Beens

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.95, Delphi Classics

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• We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

  Marcel Proust

  Fear, Learning, Essence

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

  Ansel Adams

  Discovery, World, Helping

  Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: photographs”

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• And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.

  Edmond Rostand

  Love, Flower, Communication

  Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited

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• From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

  Betty Smith

  Lonely, Book, Reading

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

  Ian Mcewan

  Simple, Obvious Things, Perspective

  "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, www.sfgate.com. 2001.

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• 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.

  Robert Rankin

  Kind

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• Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the son's new revelation of his poverty of heart that propelled him back into his Father's arms. Sometimes we use the very blessings that God gives us to finance our journey away from the centrality of Christ. It's very important that we return back to ground zero, to the ultimate eternal goal of abiding with the Father's in intimate communion. (pg. 243)

  Tommy Tenney

  Zero, Father, Heart

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• Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.

  Claudia Gray

  Running, Moving, Kissing

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• Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.

  Shusaku Endo

  Heart, Character, Reflection

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