"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Touch Me Quotes

“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.”
“The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.”
“Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.”

Source : Donna VanLiere (2012). “The Good Dream”, p.125, Macmillan
“It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.”
“I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.”
“I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him”
“Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself”

Source : Carolyn Wells (2007). “Patty at Home”, p.42, 1st World Publishing
“Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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