Touchstones Quotes - Page 5

• Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

  Eric McCormack

  School, Musical, Trying

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• What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.55

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• Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

  William Hazlitt

  Tests, Poverty, Civility

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.132

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• The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

  Moliere

  Men, He Man, Wit

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• Calamity is man's true touchstone.

  John William Fletcher

  Men, Negativity, Affliction

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• Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

  Edith Wharton

  Hate, Self Esteem, Eye

  Edith Wharton (1900). “The Greater Inclination: The Touchstone”

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• Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.

  Tom Kenny

  Jobs, Kids, Careers

  "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Character, Mean

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.115, Discovery House

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• In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Adventure, Soul

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• The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Life, Relationship, Family

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

  Paul Gallico

  Work, Facts, Craftsman

  Paul Gallico (1961). “Further Confessions of a Story Writer: Stories Old and New”

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• Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Chess, Intellect

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• A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

  Denis Diderot

  Religion, Gone, Firsts

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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• In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, World, Devotion

  "What art museums should learn from Christianity". Article by Alain de Botton, www.abc.net.au. February 22, 2012.

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• Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Hurt, Men, Light

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.12

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• I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.

  Iggy Pop

  Inspirational, Teenage, Kids

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