Caress Quote by Harry Mulisch Download Open image “Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.” — Harry Mulisch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caress Casual Communication Conversation Hair Names
“The way he says my name like that, it’s not just a word or name, it’s a caress.” — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
“And it is true that we are warmed by being called by our names. We all know people who hardly ever do it, who… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way.… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away. — James Salter Copy Share Image
That awkward moment, when you're out in public and you hear someone call your name. Just to turn around and figure out that it… — Emma Swenson Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hey, er ..." said Zaphod, "what's your name?" The man looked at them doubtfully. "I don't know. Why, do you think I should have… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Use Names. Calling a person by name makes him/her feel recognized, appreciated, and special. It shows respect and that you are genuinely interested in… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you. — Simon Travaglia Copy Share Image
Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I wonder what goes through your mind when someone mentions my name to you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Still, national politics meant little to him: about as much as paper airplanes would mean to the survivor of a plane crash.” — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“People returning from a journey carry the distances they have traveled with them like outspread wings - until they put the key in their… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.” — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“Iemand die van iemand anders houdt, zegt altijd dat dat komt doordat die ander zo mooi is, op een of andere manier, van buiten… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“You could chat with anyone; being silent together without it becoming embarrassing was a lot rarer.” — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“The oldest thing of all is the present, because there's never been anything else but present. No one has ever lived in the past,… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“Hate is the darkness, that's no good. And yet we've got to hate Fascists, and that's considered perfectly all right. How is that possible?… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“When we heard those shots and he saw Ploeg lying in front of the house, what he said was, 'My God, the lizards!'" With… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“His father in law, who was as old as the century, had just retired and was living in a country house in Gelderland. He… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“When bodies talk, a hand brushing across a face declares love the tongue never speaks. When bodies talk, eyes make promises and lips keep… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
“The caress of each word becoming one with the page. Twisting beneath the touch of the pen, forming a trail of permanent kisses, until… — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners… — Little' Jimmy Dickens Copy Share Image
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life. — Facundo Cabral Copy Share Image
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one… — Voltaire Copy Share Image