Best 215 quotes in «intimate quotes» category

I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.

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.

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.

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

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

I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

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.

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.

It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

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.

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

I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.

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

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

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.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.

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

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

Men in their teenage years and even into their mid to late 20s, they're just baboons. They're really not capable of taking account of other people's feelings, being considerate, being intimate. And this is the bottom line.

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

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.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

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

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

The anesthetizing against caring really threw me for a loop. I was seeing it with 15-year-olds. It was how they were starting their intimate lives. It alarmed me.

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone.

The advertising marketplace is moving rapidly into digital videos. We know that by 2018 it is estimated that it will be a $12.2 billion business. We've been seeing the agencies combine their digital video spend with television spend and put it under one spend and just calling it "video." The pool of money is becoming much bigger. The comparisons between television and digital video are being made much more often because you can account for who's watching, you can't fast-forward through the commercials. There's a much more intimate relationship with someone watching digital video.

The American Dream is a romantic notion but it's newer - not as pretty. You go to Europe, and it says something about the type of person you are. You're in search of something more intimate and more about yourself.

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.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

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

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

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.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

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

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends