I Quotes
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“I touch this pen,
and I feel your fingers,
I hear a song,
and tears flow down my eyes.
Everything comes to life
because you have touched them,
but all the world is meaningless
without love.”
Source: Poems of Love and Letting Go
“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”
Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
“I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.”
Source: Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4
“I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.”
“I touched curiosity,
I kissed sin,
I felt regret,
And I was forgiven.
But life won't let me forget.”
“I touched each star
you collected for me in vain;
Only to see my sky fade
inside the glimmer of a dream.”
“I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.”
“I touched her in intimate areas as I spoke to her
Without lying beside her, I descended upon her thoughts
Slowly sliding my writing over her soggy voracious soul
Until she let down her guard and allowed me to penetrate deeply into her lovely mind.”
“i touched her in the middle of her heart.
i never saw her again.
–– scar”
Source: Salt
“I touched him. From brain to body, in ways I couldn’t quite understand. But he did and for him, that was all that mattered.”
“I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me>omg>boner.”
Source: Unteachable
“I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire. Her fingers ran through my sideburns and into my hair before linking around my neck, alive and cool on my warm skin. I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life, my mind didn’t wander to compose a song lyric or store the moment for later reflection. For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else. -Sam”
“I touched peaks impossible.”
“I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.”
“I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.”
“I touched the moon last night;
a golden glow beyond my grasp.
Eons before me it rested there.
It will remain when I am dust.
My hand now glows from the embrace.
Voices echo through nights past,
and with the glow, caress my face.
My finger faints from what will last.
Alone I am; alone secure;
the moon will last when I am gone.
A Master set it in its’ place,
to move the tide, refresh the dawn.
Unnumbered eyes have felt its rest;
have looked upon reflected light.
My heart is moved away from pain;
I touched the moon last night.”
Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness
“I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.”
“I touched the Waterford glass with my finger: and in its ring I heard the echo of a voice saying You do not really want your wife back after all. I answered the voice in my heart: a bond of this kind is deeper and stronger than wanting or not wanting. Wherever I am in the world and whenever I am I shall always be Antonia.”
Source: A Severed Head
“I touched you and my life stopped”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“I tought how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will last - such a little time. The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
“I tought I looked cool behind the wheel, I wasn't prepared for Baz. I wouldn't be able to look away from him, if there wasn't so much else to take in.”
“I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.”
“I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.”
“I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.”
“I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.”
“I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.”
“I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.”
“I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.”
“I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work. I'm not afraid of hard work, especially if it's for stuff that I enjoy. But I actually don't think you could name one artist who enjoys promo or touring after the first three to six months of an album cycle.”
“I toured for about 2 1/2 years on twentythree and then I took about a year off. I really just spent some good quality time by myself at my house, cooking, watching movies, hanging with my friends, and family. I just really needed a chance to get away from the music for a minute and decompress.”
“I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.”
“I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.”
“I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.”
“I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured.”
Source: Signal to Noise
“I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.”
“I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.”
“I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.”
“I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling.”
“I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.”
“I trace the box’s lid where a gold ribbon binds it. With one tug, the bow poofs into a golden, glittering fall of letters that form a message in midair—
Things I once hoped to give you:
1. A magical wedding . . .
Choking back tears, I take out the ring and loop it onto the string alongside the diary’s key at my neck, tucking it under my shirt to keep it safe.
A picnic basket sits at my feet beneath the bench. There’s another ribbon, and when I untie it, more letters form a glimmering parade through the air:
2. Picnics at the lake with your mom and dad . . .
I sniffle and make my way to the middle of the room, where reproductions of my mosaics float next to Sold signs. I tug a ribbon loose and free another message:
3. A lifetime of shared successes and laughter . . .”
Source: Ensnared
“I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very low levels at the top, where we stripped away regulations. So the result of that was not a more dynamic economy, but a more unequal society. We tried the experiment of trickle-down. A third of a century later, we can say fairly definitively that it was a failure.”
“I trace the lines of the tattoo on his chest---two tigers facing off with symbols and words. "I thought you didn't like cats. When did you get this?"
"Oh, I love cats. Just not my mother's," he says. "As for the tattoo, I think I told you that I practice mixed martial arts. I got this one when my family lived in Thailand, setting up one of the resorts, when I was eighteen and practicing Muay Thai. This design has traditional symbols of Sak Yant---twin tigers, five lines, nine peaks, and eight directions, all deeply rooted in ancient Buddhist and Hindu practices and representing forces like power, strength, fearlessness, protection, and wealth."
"You definitely have all those attributes," I say, enraptured by the design and the softness of his skin. Everything about him is so sensual---from his lips to his toes and whatever he's hiding under the towel.”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique
“I traced a finger along my bottom lip as I wondered what his erection would look like, and how I should seduce him. I thought what kind of approach would work best: whether to go in slow and seductively, or whether I should make him notice me in some hard and fast way.”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.”
“I trade all my pains for peace of God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I trade all my pains for the peace of God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume V: Poems, 1697
“I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.”
“I traded freedom for power, and I could use that power to keep the people I cared about safe. To wish for both freedom and power would be selfish; there was a reason everything came with a cost.”
Source: The Defiant Heir
“I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future.”
Source: Assembly