Quotes About Intimate

My poor scapegoat, I almost love you but would have cast, I know, the stones of silence. I am the artful voyeur of your brain's exposed and darkened combs, your muscles' webbing and all your numbered bones: I who have stood dumb when your betraying sisters, cauled in tar, wept by the railings, who would connive in civilized outrage yet understand the exact and tribal, intimate revenge. -"Punishment

It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world

Assim, logo que nosso pensamento encontrou palavras, ele já deixa de ser algo íntimo, algo sério no nível mais profundo. Quando ele começa a existir para os outros, para de viver em nós, da mesma maneira que o filho se separa da mãe quando passa a ter sua existência própria.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing.

There is all the same some truth to the allegation that — as one intimate put it — the American Revolution could be blamed on the Harvard College library.3

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

Her eyes closed, her voice filled the little room, soft and mellifluous, as if it had been dipped in honey.

Spaces are scientific, open, and detached; places are intimate, peopled, and emotive.

I'm very romantic.

The body I have and am is my most intimate point of entry into the world. It serves me, at times it sustains my flagging spirity with its vitality, at other times it reminds me of my finitude with its limitations.

Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

I'm personally a hopeless romantic. I always have been.

I'm a horrible romantic!

Pero soy una romántica.

The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise.

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.

To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the Rings' is an epic. But 'The Hobbit' isn't an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it's full of adventures and excitement, they're on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal.

Well, all speaking is difficult, whether peril attends it or not. Sometimes peril to the body, sometimes a more intimate, miniature, invisible peril to the soul. When to speak at all is a betrayal of something, perhaps a something not even identified, hiding inside the chambers of the body like a scared refugee in a site of war.

El miedo, del latín metus —dijo—, se mete en la persona por sí mismo, o por la acción de un tercero, en tanto que fobia es un sufijo que nosotros los... aplicamos específicamente a los temores íntimos proyectados a un objeto exterior.»

Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope.