Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Katie

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

We approached the Hilton. We were looking for a nice, intimate venue, an intimate place. It was our first choice.

bell hooks

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.

Blake Shelton

There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.

A. B. Yehoshua

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Carroll Quigley

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

Corey Reynolds

Theres a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera, and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them.

Deepak Chopra

The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

Theo James

I find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

We wanted to go from the most intimate sound to the largest, in the space of a heartbeat.

Jo Brand

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?

Henri Nouwen

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

Competency means having the technical understanding ... teaching the intimate details,

James Levine

People are turning away from the more formal, traditionally posed wedding photos to a more intimate and natural approach,

It seems like people become intimate more quickly (in cyber-relationships),

Havelock Ellis

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

Harville Hendrix

Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger universe. We cannot experience life in its fullness unless we have an intimate relationship with another human being and, beyond that, a feeling of connection with the world around us.

Gilbert Highet

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

Jennifer Connelly

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

It's not like meeting in a bar. It's somewhat of an intimate location. People on the train have pretty much the same interests. You see people every day, and you kind of get to know them.

Tyra Banks

I'm very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.

Honore de Balzac

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

I like those acoustic, intimate shows - as well as ear-bleeding rock.

Madeleine L'Engle

...to share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible...

Mike Farrell

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

Haruki Murakami

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

Marianne Williamson

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.

Kevin Systrom

On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.

Morgan Freeman

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

Gary Chapman

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

Jon Krakauer

But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught and encouraged his adherents to receive personal communiqués straight from the Lord. Divine revelation formed the bedrock of the religion.