I think tension between the intimate and the vast is at the heart of every poem by any poet, though of course… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,'… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and… — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick Copy Share Image
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I think that I would have made a fine president. But it really came down for me to a very personal, a… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses,… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms.… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics,… — Rick Poynor Copy Share Image
I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
My car is my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
