Intimate Quotes

• Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

  

  Evelyn Cunningham
  • Women
  • Society
  • Association

• In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

  

  Monica Bellucci
  • Difficult
  • Something
  • Private

• That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Stranger
  • Intimate
  • Cigarette

• A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

  

  George Nakashima
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Intimate

• People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because they know that forty minutes on Sunday is not enough to sustain them for a whole week, especially when they will encounter so many distractions and alternative messages.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Christian
  • Enough

• The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Existence
  • Mystical

• What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Sleep
  • Feels

• I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes. We could say things and people will catch them. That couldn't happen at a festival because nobody would catch it. I also like that in a smaller space people can be talking to each other and listening to the music; they don't have to be watching you the whole time.

  

  Børns
  • People
  • Listening
  • Audience

• The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Crisis
  • Solitary
  • Isolated

• Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.

  

  Gail Saltz
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Problems

• I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Term
  • Comfort
  • Sofas

• Most sex is not really intimate.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Intimate

• In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our less fortunate citizens carrying their belongings in brown paper bags is too familiar to permit such crass biases to diminish protection of privacy.

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Protection
  • Privacy
  • Familiar

• It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

  

  William McFee
  • Dark
  • Easier
  • Intimate

• That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Mistake
  • Sex
  • Generations

• The advertising marketplace is moving rapidly into digital videos. We know that by 2018 it is estimated that it will be a $12.2 billion business. We've been seeing the agencies combine their digital video spend with television spend and put it under one spend and just calling it "video." The pool of money is becoming much bigger. The comparisons between television and digital video are being made much more often because you can account for who's watching, you can't fast-forward through the commercials. There's a much more intimate relationship with someone watching digital video.

  

  Dawn Ostroff
  • Moving
  • Advertising
  • Comparison

• Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Together
  • Endure
  • Anniversary

• I love how intimate I've become with failure.

  

  Bob Hicok
  • Failure
  • I Love
  • Intimate

• Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Intimate
  • Evasion
  • Unequivocation

• Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Serious

• The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

  

  William Wetmore Story
  • Poet
  • Intimate
  • Smallest

• I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Laughing

• To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Speak
  • Teach
  • Modesty

• The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.

  

  George Sarton
  • Absence
  • Chickens
  • Culinary

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