[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
You ask actors what they would like to do, and you constantly keep them engaged. You want their engagement, input, and sensibilities.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I love little theatres because it's very intimate, and you can have a very easy rapport with the audience. Everyone's in the… — Tobias Menzies Copy Share Image
To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
President's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.” — David Richo Copy Share Image
I do like choral music a lot, the voice is a pretty strong instrument - out of all the instruments, it's the… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
I've always been quite good at watching someone do something and then picking it up, so I turned that talent to watching… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience. — George Muller Copy Share Image
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Personality is that which is most intimate to me—that by which I must act out my life. It is that by which… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear… — Homer Copy Share Image