Touching Quotes

• 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

• Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Art
  • Action
  • Artist

• how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Doubt
  • Breathing
  • Touching

• There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • Feelings
  • Shame
  • Guilt

• To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.

  

  Michael Stephen Portnoy Adrenaline Mob
  • Different
  • Important
  • Mind

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

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Cold
  • Accused

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Black
  • Friend
  • Filth

• I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Children
  • Water
  • Heaven

• Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Directors

• I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • World
  • Remember
  • Together

• I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Feelings
  • Melancholy
  • Bittersweet

• 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
  • Feelings
  • Eye

• The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!

  

  Densey Clyne
  • Heart
  • Difference
  • Butterfly

• I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Happy
  • Running
  • Ground

• She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Long
  • She
  • Stop

• After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”

  

  Dennis Wolfberg
  • Therapy
  • Touching
  • Psychologist

• It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Feeling
  • Touching
  • Void

• There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Age

• In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • People
  • Age
  • Absence

• It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people. We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it.

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Liberty

• Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Ability

• He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Night
  • Mean
  • Moments

• In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Hate
  • Littles
  • Beats

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