Intimate Quotes

Alcohol is like love," he said. "The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. (Raymond Chandler)
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. View quote
George Washington
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. View quote
James Baldwin
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. View quote
Edward Hopper
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. View quote
Edward Hopper
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. View quote
Willa Cather
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. View quote
Orson Welles
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. View quote
Yoshida Kenkō
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. (E. L. Doctorow)
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. View quote
Sun Tzu
Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not. View quote
Ayelet Waldman
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark. View quote
William McFee
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Bear in mind that the novel-no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective-is always a historical projection of its own time. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. View quote
Amy Bloom
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. View quote
Carlisle Floyd
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. (M. F. K. Fisher)
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected. View quote
John Adams
I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence. View quote
George Sarton
The Poet in his Art Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part. View quote
William Wetmore Story