Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I am not against any kind of physical intimacy on screen, but kissing is a big no unless it's with Jennifer. I'd… — Karan Singh Grover Copy Share Image
Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never… — Augustus John Copy Share Image
“But when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections. And then, easy connection becomes redefined as intimacy. Put otherwise,… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“What if, in the bigger scheme of things, God put the yearning and desire for our husbands, not so a man could… — Ngina Otiende Copy Share Image
I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What is emotional intimacy? It is that depp sense of being connected to one another. It is feeling loved, respected and appreciated,… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
“I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I sit on the bed and kick off my shoes, and he kneels before me and takes the riding boots, holding one… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“...we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face. We are offered robots and a whole world… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
“It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
“Everything and anything can be taken away from us—jobs, religious freedoms, finances, health, relationships—except for our intimate relationship with God. Once we… — Jeanne Nigro Copy Share Image
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and… — Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery,… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be… — Danielle Cormack Copy Share Image
Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands… — Saadi Copy Share Image
You're working so hard and so many hours, you simply don't get to visit with everybody when you're gone for five months.… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“ 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there's a real lack of intimacy.… — Tristan Wilds Copy Share Image
Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows).… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“When we live life at the pace of a NASCAR race, sex is one of the first things that goes. Once again,… — Kevin Leman Copy Share Image
Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
![“[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't showing off, he was just telling you, nobody else, what it was like, what it was all about. That intimacy made him beloved. We can admire the art of John Updike or…” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/beb/michael-dirda-3414_admire_kurt-vonnegut-was-a-writer-whose-great-g_2525625.jpg)
