Intimate Strangers Quotes

#1. I wasn't big on family gatherings. Too many intimate strangers. I smiled a lot, but really I never knew what to say.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#2. If the observation were made to you that "Strangers become intimate, and as intimacy grows they lower their guards and less mind their manners until errors are made, which decreases intimacy until estrangement exceeds that which existed before the strangers ever met," would you be inclined to agree?

Padgett Powell

#3. And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

Shannon Hale

#4. What are you - Secret Service?'
'If I were, I wouldn't admit it.'
'And you're not admitting it, I notice.

Robert Goddard

#5. Verbing weirds language.

Bill Watterson

#6. I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

Aleksandra Mir

#7. The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

Edmund White

#8. And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

Warren Zevon

#9. I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers
all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences
it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

Peter Greenaway

#10. Set your objectives high, and don't stop till you get there. It's time to make your dream a reality. It's your time to live your dream. LET'S GO!

Farshad Asl

#11. We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.

Alton Brown

#12. The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become

Anonymous

#13. The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

Richard Handler

#14. I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

Henry Czerny

#15. Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

James Clavell

#16. There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.

Michelle Tea

#17. That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

Publilius Syrus

#18. We watched each other's eyes. We were as strangers, in that moment - as intimate as strangers - for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love.

M T Anderson

#19. I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

Tyson Gay

#20. It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

Suzanne Vega

#22. You're not beating when you lose, you're beaten when you quit.

Jesse Brock

#23. There was an intimate connection between them, as if they'd known each other always. They were not strangers; they'd merely never met before.

Sherry Thomas