Intimate Quotes - Page 30

• the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

  Matsuo Basho

  Infinity, Emptiness, Empty

  Matsuo Basho (2003). “A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen”, p.18, Counterpoint Press

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• The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

  Novalis

  Sympathy, Soul, Unions

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• One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Clothes, Space, Vacuums

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Blood, People

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• one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

  Marie Antoinette

  Family, Share, Affectionate

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• Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

  Alison Lurie

  Talking, Clothes, Bed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Thinking, News, Television

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1993). “Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy”, p.206, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way. ... Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.

  Shere Hite

  Family, Children, Two

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• Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Heart, Men

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• If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Sex, Passion, Facts

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• the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Leisure, Conversation

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.126, Wave Books

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• Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Men, Church, Connections

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• It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Emotional, Insane, Want

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.

  Chiara Barzini

  Drama, Believe, Passion

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• The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

  Isabel Allende

  Skins, Levels, Changed

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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• People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.

  Tim Gunn

  People, Share, Come Up

  "Project Runway's Tim Gunn". Interview with Tony Peregrin, chicagoist.com. September 8, 2010.

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• I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.

  Jason Mraz

  Home, Opportunity, Risk

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Heart, Able

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Source: 4chanlit.wikia.com

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• When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when it's close to the audience, as well.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Thinking, Scary, Erotic

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• In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Men, Self, United States

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books

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• The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

  Frances Osborne

  Trust, Father, Ordinary

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• Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Art, Responsibility, Privilege

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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• The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.

  African Spir

  Real, Data, Principles

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.

  Dinty W. Moore

  School, Past, Self

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