Touching Quotes

625 quotes by 505 authors

Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need… — Terry Pratchett
If it wasnâ€™t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair. — Holly Black
A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head… — Anne Rice
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the… — Joel Salatin
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd… — Bill Watterson
You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not… — Marcel Proust
Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied… — Russell Means
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it… — Roberto Bolano
There are things that are more important than the news and whatâ€™s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination… — Clive Barker
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic
Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is… — Orson Scott Card
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,… — Denis Johnson
To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is… — Mark Helprin
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby,… — Orhan Pamuk
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to… — Jonathan Lethem
I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand. — Regina Doman
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like… — John Muir

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