Intimacies Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes,…
— Camille Paglia
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My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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All intimacies are based on differences.
— Henry James
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Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
— Sherry Turkle
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The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a…
— Anais Nin
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The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
— Satyajit Ray
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Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic…
— William Kittredge
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So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
— Will Self
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In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those…
— Miranda July
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Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or…
— Elizabeth Strout
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave…
— William James
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Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and…
— Henri Nouwen
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What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and…
— Russell Smith
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Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the…
— Henry Taylor
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will…
— William James
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The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan…
— R Z Sheppard
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem
— Elizabeth Bowen
Who Wrote These Intimacies Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Intimacies Quotes as follows: