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Quotes About Touch

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.
~ Steve Martin
Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.
~ E. Lockhart
Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before. For a moment, or for minutes, for hours, possibly.
~ E. Lockhart
His thumb rubbed the center of my palm. All my nerves concentrated there, alive to every movement of his skin on mine.
~ E. Lockhart
Like every true performer, she was intoxicated by the mere feel of the notes: they were fingers caressing her own; and by touch, not by sound alone, did she come to her desire.
~ E. M. Forster
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
~ E.E. Cummings
and someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, 'Sir, was you calling out for me? ... Sir, I know ... I know,' and touched him.
~ E.M. Forster
Yes, awfully serious,' remarked Maurice, and rested his hand on Alec's shoulder, so that the fingers touched the back of the neck, doing this merely because he wished to do it, not for another reason.
~ E.M. Forster
Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
~ E.M. Forster
They led a life that she could not attain to—the outer life of 'telegrams and anger,' which had detonated when Helen and Paul had touched in June, and had detonated again the other week.
~ E.M. Forster
Birbirimize dokunmalar?m?z korkak kelebeklerdir, dokununca renkleri y?k?lan.
~ Ece Temelkuran
The despair among the loveless is that they must narcoticize themselves before they can touch any human being at all. They, then, fatally, touch the wrong person, not merely because they have gone blind, or have lost the sense of touch, but because they no longer have any way of knowing that any loveless touch is a violation, whether one is touching a woman or a man.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
If a writer has the desire to communicate by writing and be heard, then he necessarily cares about seeing it in print. I suppose it's the difference between masturbation and making love—the real writer wants to touch another person.
~ Edmund White
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.
~ Edna O'Brien
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I 'most could touch it with my hand! And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
We discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.
~ Edward Abbey
The shock of the real. For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.
~ Edward Abbey
For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.
~ Edward Abbey
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
~ Edward Albee
A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.
~ Edward Bernays
Reach out and touch someone.
~ Anonymous
2 Teach is 2 Touch lives 4 Ever
~ Anonymous