Intimate Quotes

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

I don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in love with a monster. It is the story of a hunt and of a seduction.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

I think that I would have made a fine president. But it really came down for me to a very personal, a very intimate and a spiritual decision. I don't rule anything out for the long-term future.

There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me and my experiences.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of intimacy that you create. Because it becomes very intimate.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

The anesthetizing against caring really threw me for a loop. I was seeing it with 15-year-olds. It was how they were starting their intimate lives. It alarmed me.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.

We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

I would love to go to smaller places in the UK such as Manchester and Liverpool and play there. It's much more intimate; you got to get down and gritty, getting closer to the people.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

By giving our audience intimate access to the lives of musicians, we hope to raise awareness of the region's beautiful cultural heritage and present a more nuanced portrait of its people.

I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.