Touched Quotes - Page 14

• Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Passion, Moments, Natural

  Maria Edgeworth (1811). “Almeria; a Tale of fashionable life”, p.29

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• Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hero, Praise, Humans

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

  Maureen Howard

  Adults, Flesh, Modesty

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• The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

  Alfred Nobel

  Father, War, Hammers

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• When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd- but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find its way into other hearts.

  Sark

  Dream, Song, Heart

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• Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at all, whether painterly, social or aesthetic. I tried to find nothing too explicit, hence all the banal subjects; and then, again, I tried to avoid letting the banal turn into my issue and my trademark. So it's all evasive action, in a way.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Issues, Choices

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for a long time. It was growing and growing, so finally I said, 'I must paint this.' I come from East Germany and am not a Marxist, so of course at the time I had no sympathy for the ideas, or for the ideology that these people represented. I couldn't understand, but I was still impressed. Like everyone, I was touched. It was an exceptional moment for Germany.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, East Germany, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Depressing, Fun, People

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• My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

  Kelly Brook

  Drug, Rebel, Watches

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

  Rob Corddry

  Writing, Winning, Oscars

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• In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.

  Mike DeWine

  Years, Earth

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• I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes.

  David Gallagher

  Fans, Neptune, Huge

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

  Gil Gerard

  Years, People, Audience

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• Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.

  Queen Victoria

  People, Aberdeen, Hills

  Queen Victoria, Arthur Helps (2010). “Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Flames, Arrows

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.145

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• . . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

  Thomas Cole

  Nature, Regret, Men

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• Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

  Roger Daltrey

  Voice, People, Difficult

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• My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Running, Couple

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• Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Eye, Hands, Saws

  "Sämtliche Werken, vol. III". Book by Josef Nadler, 1949-1957.

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• I get my highlights touched up with Susan Henry at Shades in Beverly Hills. She developed hypo-allergenic hair color products with no ammonia because she's allergic to others; she's an incredible colorist. She does balayage instead of the foils, and I'll go and she will do my entire head of highlights in an hour.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Hair, Color, Beverly Hills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot.

  Elvis Presley

  Sex, Volcanoes, Hands

  Song: I'm All Shook Up

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• You touched my hand, my heart went pop. Ooh, when we kissed, I could not stop.

  Johnny Burnette

  Sex, Heart, Hands

  Song: You're Sixteen

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• Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

  Marian Keyes

  Love Is, Emotion, Difficult

  "Ask a grown-up: how do we measure love?" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

  R. Kelly

  Mother, Father, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

  Richard Louv

  Falling In Love, Art, Children

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.9, Algonquin Books

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