Jeff Buckley Quotes

I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

Jeff Buckley

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• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Big
  • Intimacy
  • Table

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Country
  • Relationship

• Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Laugh
  • Intimacy

• So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Acting

• I am not against any kind of physical intimacy on screen, but kissing is a big no unless it's with Jennifer. I'd like to kiss her on-screen as we do it at home, too. If we get paid for it, that's even better.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Home
  • Kiss
  • Intimacy

• I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Me

• The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Different
  • Drama
  • Intimacy

• 'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Different
  • Book
  • Couple

• The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Work
  • House
  • Beautiful

• I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Up
  • Intimacy

• Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

  

  Chuck D
  • Music

• When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • Experience
  • Intimacy

• To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Art
  • Color
  • Intimacy

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • World
  • Alone
  • Communication

• Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Funny
  • Attention
  • Intimacy

• When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Money
  • Everyday
  • Mountain

• Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Different
  • Family
  • Black

• So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Long
  • Wish
  • Sacrifice

• If you're a fast bowler, you are there to bowl fast and knock the stumps over and hit the batsmen...

  

  Brett Lee
  • Bowler
  • Stumps
  • Batsmen

• I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Intimacy