Intimate Quotes - Page 4

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

In order to share intimate feelings, you have to have intimate feelings.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

Good sexual chemistry is fundamental to a vibrant intimate relationship.

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn't start to get that until I turned 60.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Romance is about love. It's about two people sharing intimate moments expressing that love

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.