Quotes About Touch

The days are nouns: touch them The hands are churches that worship the world

rounded shoulders, the shoulders of women no one has touched for a long time. Men

But leave me a little love, A voice to speak to me in the day end, A hand to touch me in the dark room Breaking the long loneliness. In the dusk of day-shapes Blurring the sunset, One little wandering, western star Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow. Let me go to the window, Watch there the day-shapes of dusk And wait and know the coming Of a little love. —Carl Sandburg, from "At the Window," Chicago Poems (Dover Publications, 1994)

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

Sage was right behind her and when she passed by Creed's chair he reached out and touched her arm. She stopped and looked down at him quizzically. You sure look pretty this morning, he said.

The tenderness of his mouth barely touching hers and his drawl combined to send a heat flash through her whole body. If that brief contact created such an effect, a relationship might burn down the house.

She touched her forehead with the back of her

Cormick! Anything even remotely resembling trespassing and breaking and entering is going to look bad to a parole officer!' Cormick stopped, then turned and headed back to the car, 'I hate that.' I thought a moment, 'I'm not on parole.' I started for the box... 'Don't touch anything you find,' Cormick said as we passed each other.

I never touch nothing with writing on it.

Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive.

When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

My friends' hugs are longer and tighter; consist of extra squeezes and pats, which alternate between a circular rubbing motion and a light pitter-pattering on the back, both of which I find surprisingly comforting.

Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.

I have played against greats, like Ronaldo and Hazard. But I love watching Messi's touch of the ball, his style.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears...

they washed their hands in one basin. Clare touched hers under the water. Which are my fingers and which are yours? he said, looking up. They are very much mixed. They are all yours, said she, very prettily

It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a nice one.

And then her cooing voice, plaintive in expostulation, disturbed the darkness, the velvet touch of her lips passed over his brow, and he could distinguish in the air the warmth of her breath.

Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no – they were not perfect. and it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

He held it at arm's length, through the bars, his forefinger along the spine. She reached across the barrier and took it. For an instant the tip of her forefinger touched Dr. Lecter's. The touch crackled in his eyes. Thank you, Clarice. Thank you, Dr. Lecter. And that is how he remained in Starling's mind. Caught in the instant when he did not mock. Standing in his white cell, arched like a dancer, his hands clasped in front of him and his head slightly to the side.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment

when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world's intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there's cataclysm.