Touchstone Quotes

62 quotes by 58 authors

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can… — Tyler Perry
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be… — Bertrand Russell
Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the… — Garth Nix
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. Weâ€™re… — Haruki Murakami
Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure… — Mary E. Pearson
The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot… — Mahatma Gandhi
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. — Alain de Botton
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of… — Bertrand Russell
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone… — Denis Diderot
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one… — Emile Durkheim
One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not… — Monica Crowley
For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious. — Richard Greenberg
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. — Tacitus
A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many… — Bill Owens
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. — Walter Jon Williams
I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me. — Bruce McCulloch
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can… — DH Lawrence
A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes

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