Intimate Quotes

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love.

This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

I strongly support Roe v. Wade, which guarantees a constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate, most difficult, in many cases, decisions about her health care that one can imagine.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

The intimate and meditative form that Plutarch became known for was completely new in his day.

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.

It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul's most powerful spiritual advancements.

The Mac defined personal technology, and the iPhone defines intimate technology as a convergence of communications, content and location.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

Big halls allow me to be a little "larger" and the challenge is make the show feel intimate.

We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.

On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

Working with Ava [ DuVernay] and Oprah [Winfrey], they're just so intimate. I feel like we're really family at this point.