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Quotes About Touch

I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.
~ Ben Katchor
'Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again.
~ Rutger Hauer
The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.
~ Brad Dourif
We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.
~ Steve Ballmer
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
~ Sarah Addison Allen
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.
~ George Eliot
We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.
~ Helen Fisher
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
~ Tamora Pierce
When a woman wants your attention, she uses her smile. When she wants your wallet, she uses her charm. When she wants your heart, she uses her touch. When she wants your soul, she uses her kiss.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.
~ Thomas Frank
A cartoon in the New Yorker captured the absurdity with a scene of airline passengers in a populist mutiny of their own: "These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us," bellows one of them. "Who thinks I should fly the plane?
~ Thomas Frank
Let me feel how thy pulses beat.
~ Thomas Middleton
Her fingers touched me! She smells all amber.
~ Thomas Middleton
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
~ Thomas Pynchon
He picked up a handful of grass and squeezed it in his fingers, letting the blades fall back to the ground, two or three at a time. It felt cold and wiry.
~ Thomas Tessier
You'll be a fine sight tomorrow, you will. And a fat lip to boot." She touched the swollen tissue lightly. "Now, then, I won't
~ Thomas Tryon
When someone went too long without touch, they became hypersensitive to the slightest graze. There was truth to it. Last weekend, Eva had almost had an orgasm when her hairstylist shampooed her. And her hairstylist was a grandmother of six.
~ Tia Williams
Reach out and touch faith.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Touch' is a multi-faceted concept, reflecting the different types of receptors. The simplest are free nerve endings which detect pain and changes in temperature; slightly more complex are Merkel's tactile cells (which detect pressure); followed by Grandry bodies, which consist of two to four tactile cells and detect movement (velocity); and the lamellated Herbst corpuscles (similar to Vater-Pacinian corpuscles in mammals), which are sensitive to acceleration.
~ Tim Birkhead
I could not begin to mourn Deborah or my mind would ride off with me. There was nothing so delicate in all the world as one's last touch of control.
~ Norman Mailer
Like the sun, love radiates and warms into life all that it touches.
~ O.S. Marden
Pero los amantes siempre encuentran un instante para escapar de las tenazas de la ideología. Ese instante es diminuto e inmenso, dura lo que dura un parpadeo y es largo como un siglo... Para los amantes del cuerpo piensa y el alma se toca, es palpable.
~ Octavio Paz
women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.
~ Og Mandino