Touching Quotes - Page 10

• It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

  Oscar Wilde

  Sacred Things, Sacred

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.64, First Avenue Editions

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• Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Hands, Meetings

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Smell

  William Shakespeare (1821). “Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton”, p.36

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• I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Trying, Beard

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

  Paul Kane

  Encouragement, Home, Flames

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• Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

  "Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Hitch-22". "Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. July 13, 2010.

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• I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mind, Helping, Jamie

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• What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

  Naomie Harris

  Home, Offering, People

  "Naomie Harris Interview The First Grader". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Blue, Musical

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

  Bill Gates

  Creativity, People, Creative

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black.

  J. K. Rowling

  Black, Filth, Enough

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• It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Drinking, Beer, Barbie

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• The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins

  Anne Lamott

  Wall, Pride, Shining

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.75, Anchor

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• You know it doesn’t work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cutting, Giving, Paper

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.7, Macmillan

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• What were you thinking about? When I came in?" "Being Sam," I said. "What a nice thing to be," Grace said. And then she smiled, bigger and bigger, until I felt my expression mirror hers, our noses touching.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Nice, Thinking, Mirrors

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.368, Scholastic Inc.

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• She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

  J. D. Salinger

  Light, Dust, Able

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

  Diane Ackerman

  Couple, Jigsaw Puzzles, Together

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Rose, Tears, Spheres

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• The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

  Nancy Mitford

  Party, Gay, Wings

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• I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.

  Sylvia Plath

  Blood, Two, Lines

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.60, Hamilton Books

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hair, Hands, People

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• You live your life like it’s a rare treasure to be savored. You take pleasure from the simplest of things and you never take them for granted. I saw the joy on your face and the life in your eyes when you cradled the permits to your chest. I’ve never seen anything lovelier. I actually thought you would cry just from the joy of touching them. I’ve been numb all my life, Megeara, but you…you feel on a level that I can’t even imagine, and for a little while I wanted to feel that, too. (Arik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Joy, Live Your Life

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• These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Memories, Past

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jan 18, 2017

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• Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself - to serve. Humans often do this - in touching the infirm and sick, in serving the ones whos minds have left to wander, in relation to the poor, in loving the very old and the very young, or even in caring for the others who has assumed a position of power over them.

  William P. Young

  Caring, Position Of Power, Sick

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• There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

  Jim Butcher

  Hands, Touching You, Knowing

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1584, Penguin

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