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“One gets used to success very quickly. The surprise was how deep and enduringly I was touching people, in such different places and throughout generations.”

People Different Used Generations Surprise Touching Different Place

Author:Michel Ocelot

“Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.”

Thinking Way Wells Looks Mean Water Prayer Fine Holy Harm Touching Dessert Holy Water

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.”

Way Government Lines Successful Information Computer Employee Touching Confidential Government Employees

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.”

Book Cards Touching Signing Parole

Author:John Waters

“In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.”

Thinking Trying Earth Quality Music Fire Serious Wind Musician Died Clinton Touching Seventies Parliament Rejuvenation

Author:Maurice White

“People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.”

People Ifs Knows World Writing Happens Night Next Five Minutes Events Changed Majors Jokes Touching Five Minutes World Events

Author:Nick Thune

“As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.”

Letters Touching

Author:Jill Whalen

“I'll co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.”

“When we appeal to the throne of grace we do so through Mary, honoring God by honoring His Mother, imitating Him by exalting her, touching the most responsive chord in the sacred heart of Christ with the sweet name of Mary.”

Heart Mother Names Christ Grace Sweet Sacred Appeals Touching Mary Thrones Chords Imitating Sacred Heart

Author:Robert Bellarmine

“The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is.., it never fades away”

Left Love Is Affection Painful Touching Fades Fade Away Painful Things Never Fade Painful Love

Author:Susan Polis Schutz

“Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Sometimes Mother Three Realizing Morning Taught Giving Up Sitting Touching Worth It Never Giving Up

Author:Micah Lexier

“I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.”

Kind Wanted Found Wish My Own Powerful Aspect Musical Lifts Plus Touching Sincerely Imagery Extremity

Author:Phil Elvrum

“I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.”

“A couple can be quite intimate without sharing bodies - though you will likely not believe that, my Cam. But it can be true. What I feel for you is highly intense, whether you are standing next to me or living a hundred miles away. I do not have to be touching you at all to experience what I feel.”

Feels Believe Body Next Couple Hundred Standing Miles Intense Being True Intimate Touching Miles Away Touching You

Book:The Many Sins of Lord Cameron

Source: The Many Sins of Lord Cameron

“Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.”

Self Hands Rooms Conditions Awareness Needed Self Awareness Medicine Painful Aids Touching Flashlights Scalpels

Author:Deane Juhan

“As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.”

Ifs Hard Might Ready Wind Ought Stones Charity Yield Touching Leafs Flexible Invincible Reeds Adamant

Book:A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

Source: A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

“In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!”

Giving Feelings Hands Middle Hot Touching North Pole

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.”

Knows Way Feels Believe Doe Artist Imagination Natural Behinds Tree Shadow Clouds Pursuit Touching Veils Mystic Transcendental Very True True Artists

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.”

Mind Moving Mere Hearing Technique Chiefs Assets Touching Satisfying Sensibility Prowess

Author:Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

“The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.”

Fun Pieces Thirds Harmony Touching Components Imaginative Terrific Quartets

Author:Richard Dyer

“Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching emotions. Just as he could be terribly brutal in following up political ideas, so he could be humanely sensitive for the feelings of individuals, for the individual human life.”

Humans Children Ideas Feelings Political Individual Emotion Following Human Life Sensitive Charm Touching Brutal Charmed

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“In Tantrism, the first thing is having the experience of touch, of profound contact with things, with the universe, without mental commotion. Everything begins there: touching the universe deeply. When you touch deeply, you no longer need to let go. That occurs naturally.”

Needs Firsts Universe Letting Go Profound Contact Touching

Author:Daniel Odier

“Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man in the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach you destiny. Perhaps you could get a clearer idea of our destiny if we took time out to examine our ideas, and upgraded them if necessary. What things are most important to you? If you could do anything you wanted to be, what would you be? If you could achieve a single objective in life, what would it be?”

Ifs Men Important Ideas Hands Wanted Stars Water Destiny Achieve Succeed Following Guides Objectives Desert Touching You Choose Our Destiny

Author:Carl Schurz

“I do not like people touching my underwear. That's just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and I like cooking on the bus, too.”

People Cooking Touching Bus Underwear Dryers

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.”

“Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.”

Thinking Helping Spiritual Talking Steps Practice Meditation Eating Sitting Breaths Drinking Touching Every Step Spiritual Practice Meditation Practice

Book:Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher

Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher

“I've seen comedians make people laugh by being either really dark and sad and touching, or really strange and bizarre and creepy. You can take the format and do whatever you want with it, and that seemed interesting to me.”

People Want Dark Interesting Laughing Strange Comedian Touching Bizarre Creepy Making People Laugh Format Do Whatever You Want

Author:Amy Seimetz

“Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurb.”

Novel Tools Appreciation Propaganda Tone Touching Translations Rip Andrew Playfulness

Author:Ken Kalfus

“I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason.”

People Believe Children Reason Don't Believe Touching

Author:Paula Poundstone

“I like the excitement you get at touching another human being when you're acting with them and then having a little spark and not knowing what is going to happen in between you.”

Humans Littles Happens Human Beings Acting Knowing Excitement Touching Sparks Not Knowing

Author:Julianne Moore

“It was dangerous stuff. We were running on top of moving trains. We got to do amazing things. I like doing stuff like that. I enjoy it. But believe me, there were things that were so dangerous that I wasn't touching them.”

Believe Running Moving Stuff Enjoy Dangerous Train Touching Believe In Me Amazing Things

Author:James Badge Dale

“The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.”

Firsts Said Pain Night Left Saws Sky First Time Towns Awake Touching Throat Sucker Breathless Touching You

Book:Live for a Living

Source: Live for a Living

“As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.”

People Real Age Earth Certain Actors Stuff Groups Delight Internals Touching Passages Adulthood Shaking Relish Demographics Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Ray Stevenson

“It was (Nick Frost's) first-ever bedroom scene and my first-ever bedroom scene...not that we were actually doing much, but we did have to lie sort of semi-nude under the sheets. And he was incredibly sort of vibrant and outgoing, but then he suddenly got very, like, 'I'm engaged and I'm getting married!' And I was, 'Okay, that's good. I just won't be touching you, then!'”

Firsts Lying Scene Married Okay Engaged Touching Bedroom Sheets Frost Getting Married Outgoing Touching You

Author:Talulah Riley

“In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.”

People Seems Age Grows Essentials Absence Touched Touching Sunlight

Author:Diane Ackerman

“I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything.”

Way Mind I Can Ideas Running Differences Perfect Results Tests Structure Improvement Experiments Invention Shops Devices Touching Constructive Turbines

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Sports have a way of touching people.”

People Way Sports Touching

Author:Joan Ryan

“The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself.”

Needs Lasts Young Stars Sexy Pops Sand Covered Touching Young Women Pop Stars Grease

Author:Lady Gaga

“I do yoga. People think it is easy, just touching your toes. It is hard. But I tend to go with my own flow. It's back to the movement thing. I feel it when I need to train, and I do what I feel I need to do. And when I am in the run-up to a fight, I am really at it the whole time, might be getting my weight down to meet the limit for the division. Soon I am moving up and I am going to be champion in the next one too.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Hard Whole Might Running Moving Fighting Next Easy My Own Movement Limits Yoga Flow Weight Train Champion Division Touching Toes The Next One Moving Up

Author:Conor McGregor

“To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.”

Mind Important Different Interest Brain Doubt Tools Experiments Genre No Doubt Willingness Touching Cerebral Different Genres Genres Of Music Different Genres Of Music

Author:Mike Portnoy

“I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.”

People Cold Touching Accused Intimidated Unfeeling

Author:David Bowie

“It's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.”

Persons Different Turns Stage Ego Tired Touching Disorder I'm Tired Bipolar Bipolar Disorder Alter Ego

Author:Britney Spears

“Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.”

Men Fun Keys Having Fun Touching Grown Man Knobs

Author:Aziz Ansari

“I've gotten to that point where I'm so used to being sweaty, wearing pants, and sitting like a guy in boots. When I'm dressed up and people are touching me up and doing the whole thing, I'm less comfortable with that.”

People Whole Used Guy Comfortable Sitting Touching Pants Boots Dressed Up

Author:Maggie Q

“No touching... Cashmere is highly sensitive to the oil in poor people's fingers.”

People Poor Fingers Oil Sensitive Touching Poor People Cashmere

Author:Daniel Tosh

“It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.”

Important Bigs Song Sound Powerful Band Guitar Touching Orchestra

Author:Tessanne Chin

“I remember getting into the plane, and I was kind of fearful. I didn't know why. I just felt like something was going to happen, and we landed and I thought that was interesting because I was just thinking we were going to crash. I just remember my feet touching the ground, and that's all I remember.”

Thinking Knows Kind Happens Remember Felt Interesting Feet Planes Touching Fearful Crash Like Something

Author:Lauren Scruggs

“We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.”

Giving Mean Long Moments Helping Heaven Hours Right Now Serving Touching Rescue Disguise Distressing Happy With Him

Author:Mother Teresa

“By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.”

World Firsts Believe Moving Wish Leader Roles Influence Changed Changing The World Touching Initiative Lively Declaring Leadership Roles

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I just feel like I aint never did nothing foul in the game. My ghetto report card has always been straight A's across the board. So I said let me go ahead and name this "My Ghetto Report Card," and I'm touching down on all 4 angles of the game you smell me? I'm touching it from all basis. The album aint banana's, it's coconuts.”

Feels Said Games Names Let Me Bases Albums Smell Cards Boards Reports Touching Angle Foul Ghetto Bananas Let Me Go Coconuts Report Cards

Author:E-40

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