Touch Quotes

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Sometimes dirty can come off really cute or come off 'I don't even want you to touch me.'

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a girl won a date. I went to her prom with her in Alabama, and she was a sweetheart. I didn't move to Alabama and I didn't buy a farm there, but we still keep in touch.