Intimacy Quotes - page 2

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. View quote
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Forget about sex. Just play first. Dance, sing, read to each other, breathe together - communicate. Don't count on sex to be the door to intimacy. It's the other way around: first develop intimacy skills. Then make love to enjoy them. View quote
Margot Anand
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. View quote
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. View quote
Daniel Steele
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. View quote
Amy Bloom
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me. View quote
Garry Shandling
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one's spirit, the more vulnerable it is. View quote
Andrew Vachss
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today. (Layne Staley)
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. View quote
Armand Assante
It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it. View quote
Aileen Quinn
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. View quote
Charley Pride
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. View quote
Dean Ornish
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. View quote
Deborah Tannen
You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart. View quote
Diana Krall
If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one. View quote
Eleanor Clift
Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that. View quote
Graham Nash
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. (George Halas)
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it. View quote
Martin Jacques
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. View quote
Norman McLaren
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. View quote
Robert Morgan
When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them. View quote
Steve Kazee