Touching Quotes - Page 24

• It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Cutting, Men

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.

  David Blaine

  Hands, Feelings, Special

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• A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Humble, Sick

  Pope Francis' address to The Participants in The Plenary Assembly of The International Union of Superiors General, w2.vatican.va. May 8, 2013.

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• If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.

  El Anatsui

  Way, Ifs

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• It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

  Marilyn

  Sex, Real, Eye

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• Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Talking, Punching

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• Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Wall, Freedom, Men

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• We’re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with a new process called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which reads the field without even touching the body. So it basically says that when you’re processing with your brain, you’re broadcasting fields.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Brain, Mind, Wire

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• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Sports

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Principles, Details, Surrender

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

  George William Curtis

  Memories, Romantic Love, Romance

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• The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

  Philip Pullman

  Sex, Book, Kids

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• When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.

  Gerald May

  Running, Dream, Years

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• Love is touching souls.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love, Relationship, Communication

  Song: A Case of You

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• There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

  Gavin Bryars

  People, Feelings, Ordinary

  KlassikNet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.

  Abbi Glines

  Laughing, House, Friendly

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• After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Sunset, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Hanging of the Crane”, p.43

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• I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Baby, Hockey

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• I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

  James Herriot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cat

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• You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.

  Rae Dawn Chong

  Men, Seduction, Seducing

  "What’s With the Jewish-Man/Asian-Woman Connection, Anyway?" by Deborah Jiang-Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• "A hundred years ago, in this country, we were more comfortable with these discussions [of past lives, touching the spiritual world, collective unconsciousl] than we are today. I think part of that is that we have gotten addicted to the same serum that I'm taking, which is the belief that the answers are always going to be right there in front of us. And sometimes ya gotta take that leap."

  Mehmet Oz

  Spiritual, Country, Past

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• It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Cutting, Humanity, Strange

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Respect, Garden, Hands

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Eye

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.

  Keith Richards

  Running, Song, Taken

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.193, Hachette UK

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