Intimate famous quotes

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
-- A. B. Yehoshua

#Gold #Literature #Intimate

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
-- Adam Lambert

#Beautiful #Crush #Intimate

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
-- Adyashanti

#Spiritual #Intimate

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.
-- Amanda Hocking

#Vulnerable #Painful #Intimate

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.
-- Angie Martinez

#Albums #Jocks #Intimate

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
-- Bear Grylls

#Life And Death #Moments #Intimate

I love how intimate I've become with failure.
-- Bob Hicok

#Intimate

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
-- Brad Meltzer

#Understanding #Intimacy #Intimate

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
-- Byron Katie

#Intimate

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.
-- Charlie Huston

#Reading #Intimate #Unpredictable

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.
-- Charlie Trotter

#Art #Cooking #Intimate

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.
-- Chris Crutcher

#Children #Development #Intimate

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
-- Christian Lacroix

#Mail #Intimate #Conversation

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
-- Christie Hefner

#Objectivity #Topics #Intimate

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Joy #Close Friends #Intimate

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
-- David Deida

#Trying #Feminine #Intimate

There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.
-- David Levithan

#Mean #Hearing #Intimate

Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
-- Deborah Harkness

#Kissing #Intimate #Palms

You can actually be intimate with the universe.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Smart #Intimate #Universe

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.
-- Donna Tartt

#Grief #Intimate

If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Want #Return #Intimate

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
-- E. M. Forster

#Believe #Serious #Intimate

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
-- Edward Abbey

#Desert #Intimate #Draws

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
-- Edward Hopper

#Artist #Painting #Intimate

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.
-- Elaine Pagels

#Teacher #Betrayal #Intimate

A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.
-- Emanuel Ungaro

#Heart #Intimate #Perfume

Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.
-- Faraaz Kazi

#Eye #Way #Intimate

I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady…
-- Femi Fani-Kayode

#Long #Missing #Intimate

Is so interesting, is that when you're blindfolded and you're talking to somebody the conversation goes to places that it would never go if you could see the other person's reaction. You start talking about very intimate things. It's such an interesting experience.
-- Fernando Meirelles

#Talking #Interesting #Intimate

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Desire #Intimate

I do films to be behind the camera, not in front of the camera. I'm sure I say very intimate things about myself in all my films, but it's better to say it not too directly, to be hidden behind a woman.
-- Francois Ozon

#Cameras #Film #Intimate

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Peculiar #Intimate #Muscles

This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.
-- Gena Showalter

#Men #Prison #Intimate

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.
-- George Nakashima

#Tree #Humanity #Intimate

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
-- Gina Barreca

#Book #Reading #Intimate

I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.
-- Gisele Bundchen

#Party #People #Intimate

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
-- Harriet Lerner

#Relationship #Intimate #Substitutes

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.
-- Harry von Zell

#World #Radio #Intimate

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
-- Havelock Ellis

#Intimate #Embrace

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.
-- Henri Nouwen

#Fruit #God Love #Intimate

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
-- Henri Nouwen

#Intimate #Dare #Relationship With God

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
-- Henry Bessemer

#Curiosity #Intimate #Secrecy

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Intimate #Unworthy

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]
-- Horace

#Friends #Men #Intimate

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.
-- Ian Mcewan

#Simple #Perspective #Intimate

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
-- Isabel Allende

#Skins #Levels #Intimate

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.
-- James Hollis

#Needs #Becoming #Intimate

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.
-- James Hollis

#Intimate #Our Relationship

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.
-- Jimmy Smits

#Boxers #Intimate #Trainers

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?
-- Jo Brand

#Mouths #Intimate #Lashes

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.
-- Joan Chen

#Scene #Intimate #Difficult

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
-- Jonathan Coe

#Writing #Political #Intimate

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
-- Jonathan Swift

#Women #Two #Intimate

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.
-- Justin Kan

#Intimate #Manage

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have
-- Keith Miller

#Feelings #Intimate #Share

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.
-- Kevin James

#Nervous #Excited #Intimate

There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.
-- Kiera Cass

#Heart #Intimate #About Yourself

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
-- Laura Marling

#Thinking #Honest #Intimate

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Prayer #Men #Intimate

The deep, intimate connection I am searching for is within me. I am all that I am looking for. I am love. All is well.
-- Louise Hay

#Connections #Intimate #Wells

Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Intimate

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?
-- Marie Antoinette

#Family #Share #Intimate

Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.
-- Mark Whitwell

#Yoga #Mean #Intimate

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.
-- Mary Ruefle

#Time #Leisure #Intimate

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.
-- Matthew Nable

#Writing #Intimate #Novel

The Savior's atonement...is intimate as well as infinite.
-- Merrill J. Bateman

#Atonement #Infinite #Intimate

No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.
-- Michael Cadnum

#Intimate #Disturbed

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

#Acting #Intimate #Process

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.
-- Morgan Freeman

#Dolphins #Intimate

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
-- Natalia Tena

#Waiting #Film #Intimate

It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
-- Nicky Gumbel

#Able #Privilege #Intimate

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?
-- Nina Simone

#Pay #Intimate #Audience

I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.
-- Olivia Newton-John

#Dating #Intimate #Restaurants

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.
-- Peter Steele

#Space #Southern #Intimate

We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Important #Intimate

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.
-- Rebecca Solnit

#Book #Intimate #Reader

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
-- Rita Dove

#Details #Moments #Intimate

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
-- Rita Dove

#Poet #Intimate #Combination

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.
-- Robert Rankin

#Kind #Intimate

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
-- Robert Schumann

#Intimate #Intimate Friends #Chosen

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Literature #Intimate #Treats

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.
-- Santiago Ramon y Cajal

#Brain #Intimate #External Forces

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.
-- Sarah Polley

#Intimate #Enjoy

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

#Self #Intimate #Crisis

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
-- Sean Penn

#Growing Up #Events #Intimate

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.
-- Sondre Lerche

#Play #Arena #Intimate

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor

#Intimate #Feels

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
-- Suzy Bogguss

#Spontaneity #Spontaneous #Intimate

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Cynicism #Intimate #Polite

People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.
-- Tim Gunn

#People #Share #Intimate

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
-- Uma Thurman

#Intimate

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Awakening #Portraits #Intimate

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.
-- Victor Skrebneski

#Photography #Portraits #Intimate

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.
-- Walter Benjamin

#Alive #Ownership #Intimate

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

#Want #Comfort #Intimate

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
-- William McFee

#Dark #Intimate #Easier

The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
-- William Wetmore Story

#Poet #Intimate #Smallest

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.
-- Angel Olsen

#Writing #Intimate #Writing Process

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.
-- Gwendoline Riley

#Intimate #Credo

All directors on all sets behave slightly differently depending on what the scene is. For example, if you are doing a love scene, which is intimate then the director is likely to be intimate. If you are doing a scene where everyone is mucking around and laughing then the director is likely to start with that. If you are playing a scene which us incredibly heavy and everyone getting killed then there are probably not many laughs on the set.
-- James D'arcy

#Laughing #Scene #Intimate