Touch Quotes

• It is the last painting that I want to do, but I want to surpass myself in it. I am putting into it the experience of my 65 years and I do not want to touch a paintbrush again.

  

  Jacques-Louis David
  • Experience
  • Painting
  • Last

• Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.

  

  Belva Plain
  • Chance
  • Blood
  • Triumph

• We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.

  

  Mitch Lasky
  • Energy
  • Industry
  • Videogame

• His lips, his soft and amazing lips, touch mine and the world spins with a different kind of magic. This kind isn't evil or hard, but lovely and wild, and I melt into it. He melts into it too, I can tell. I can feel how much he loves me just but the touch of his lips. And it is a good love, a really good love.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Magic

• I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Love
  • Force
  • Irrelevant

• It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • People
  • Intention
  • Sell

• The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Distance
  • Exist
  • Touch

• She luxuriated in these disembodied telephone conversations. “Darling, I can almost see you, almost touch you now.” It was intimate yet distant; thrilling yet safe.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Safe
  • Touch
  • Conversations

• He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he's tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend's hair. Ever.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Hair
  • Remembering
  • Lectured

• But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Boy
  • Lose
  • Eating

• Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Relationship
  • Flourish
  • Valleys

• Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Touch
  • Altered

• We can never really touch the present because as soon as it is here, it is gone.

  

  Ernesto Neto
  • Present
  • Never
  • Touch

• A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Public
  • Demand
  • Product

• It can safely be said that no one has touched more lives, more deeply, than Death. Through this devastating memoir, it is hoped he will touch many, many more.

  

  George Pendle
  • Death
  • Touch
  • Memoir

• If she were to get her key back, she thought, no one but her would ever touch it. She would wind herself well in advance so that she would never need to rely on another to keep herself alive.

  

  Ekaterina Sedia
  • Key
  • Touch
  • Advance

• I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.

  

  George Michael
  • Touch
  • Tuck
  • Play Aroud

• In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

  

  George Gascoigne
  • Liberty
  • Embrace
  • Gaze

• We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

  

  Charlotte Mew
  • Spirit
  • First
  • Touch

• I can touch my eyebrows with my nose. Look at that! That's not normal. I shouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Josh Thomas
  • Touch
  • Nose
  • Eyebrows

• My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Life Is Ending

• We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • First
  • Songs
  • Touch

• If…if you don't feel anything for me then don't touch me! Don't act like you care!

  

  Arina Tanemura
  • Care
  • Feel
  • Touch

• But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Woman
  • Daughter
  • Lord

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