Touching Quotes

• In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Fire

• If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

  

  David Bowie
  • Work
  • Change
  • Water

• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Touching
  • Originally

• Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Imagine
  • Fantasy
  • Jewelry

• It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Things
  • Sacred
  • Touching

• Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Sex
  • Hands
  • Reaching

• I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Light
  • Ignorance
  • Firsts

• 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
  • Mind
  • Sick
  • Poor

• The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Great
  • She
  • Powerful

• Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • Funny

• Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Good
  • Touching
  • Cap

• When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Google

• There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching tho deed, to please God.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Water
  • Deeds
  • Cobblers

• I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Cold
  • Accused

• Once I was in the Blink-182, going to Iraq was really touching. It was kind of emo for me, going and meeting soldiers who were, like, 19 and hadn't even met their kids... Or dealing with depression. Just being with those soldiers and traveling with them in helicopters and people with M-16s. It was an eye-opener.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Kids
  • Soldier

• It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Interesting

• I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Sense
  • Doors
  • Believe Touching

• In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

  

  Maurice Herzog
  • World
  • Men
  • Boundaries

• 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
  • Music
  • Song
  • Words

• But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Up
  • Attention

• Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heart
  • Youth
  • Weakness

• I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was a kid, whenever that was,'88 or '89. It was very influential to me because it was so explicit in touching on the notion that Batman might be mad and that he might belong in the mad house.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Kids
  • House
  • Mad

• "What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Brave
  • Girls
  • Touching

• It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Records
  • Touching

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