Intimacy Quotes
True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.
Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.
My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire.
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.
If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.
When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
I've struck up a tremendous intimacy with Conte Alberto, and we literally can't live without each other. He is the first object my eyes greet in the morning, and the last at night.
The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.
Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.
A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.
I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.
There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.
It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.
The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.
He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together.
Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.
I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.
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.
A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.
I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.
As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.
Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.
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.
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.
There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.
Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
