Hanif Kureishi Intimacy Quotes

#1. Dear God, teach me to be careless.

Hanif Kureishi

#2. Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.

Cate Tiernan

#3. No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

Skrillex

#4. You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

Hanif Kureishi

#5. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy.

Hanif Kureishi

#6. Any Advance in wisdom requires a good dose of shamelessness. Intimacy

Hanif Kureishi

#7. My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

Hanif Kureishi

#8. Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

Hanif Kureishi

#9. It took everything Annika had not to charge herself up with a million volts and turn that little spectral bitch into a smoking blob of ectoplasm.

Sydney Croft

#10. Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

Jude Bijou

#11. If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

Anderson Cooper

#12. What, was there something special in your ice cream?" he said like an ass.
"Estrogen," she said. "You might notice some swelling in your boobs and shrinkage in your package for a few days.

Jamie Farrell

#13. With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

Phil Anselmo

#14. 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?

Hanif Kureishi

#15. The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

Peter T. King

#16. I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

Hanif Kureishi

#17. I hate you! (Artemis) Oh, please don't get my hopes up. You almost gave me a hard-on with that thought. At least tell me this time your hatred will last more than five minutes. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. Not everything can be achieved alone.

Hanif Kureishi

#19. To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread ... Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body")

Hanif Kureishi

#20. How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change.

Seneca.