Touchstones Quotes

65 Touchstones quotes by 59 unique authors

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes… — John F. Kennedy
Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them… — Thomas Paine
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his… — Anais Nin
Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. — Ellen Goodman
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are… — Gloria Vanderbilt
The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having… — David Whyte
It [World of Warcraft] is a touchstone. It has established standards, it's established how you play an MMO. Every MMO that comes out, I play… — Greg Zeschuk
One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against… — Paul Gallico
Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured. — Toni Morrison
California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural… — Victor Davis Hanson
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes… — Tate Taylor
Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge… — Eric McCormack
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. — Ted Cruz
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction… — James L. Barksdale
The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I… — Henri Matisse
I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this… — Iggy Pop
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something… — Amy Grant
Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of… — Rodney King
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
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed… — Rob Sheffield
Dreams are the touchstones of our character. — Henry David Thoreau
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. We’re… — Haruki Murakami

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