Top 100 Quotes About Touched
#2. Such is the indomitable spirit of saffron that even after years stale on my chest, it brought the rice to life with flavor and the color of a sunset. Or perhaps my wife leaned down and touched my efforts with a kettle-blessing to keep me safe.
Eli Brown
#3. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it's because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly.
Robert McCammon
#4. If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin
Edna O'Brien
#5. I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.
Francesca Lia Block
#6. He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious and loved.
Cassandra Clare
#7. Conridge leaned across the table and touched Conall's arm. "I wouldn't worry." She motioned toward her husband. "I stabbed him in the leg and set his Mercedes on fire before I agreed to marry him. She just needs time."Conall frowned. "Uh ... thank you?
Shelly Laurenston
#8. On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.
Carson Kressley
#9. I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.
Eva Zeisel
#10. She rolled onto her back in the middle of the suddenly empty bed. Above her, the rafters glowed with the summer sun. Blue touched her mouth. It felt the same as it always did. Not at all like she had just gotten her first and last kiss.
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. Did you see me carrying a shovel? Of course not physically."
"So what did you do, Allie?"
"I touched him. With Magic. Because, you know, grave robbing is so last season.
Devon Monk
#12. I was touched by the words that have been left,
unspoken.
September 8, 2016
Petra Hermans
#13. The spirits rose like an ether that spun an arabesque and touched down as gently as a benevolent mask.
Patti Smith
#14. I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before.
Anais Nin
#15. The center of my world is our love, Blake. Every joy...everything beautiful in my life I have is because of our love."
He closed his eyes, drawing me closer until our foreheads touched. He slowly lifted his, capturing me in a deep, soulful gaze. "You'll always have it.
Meredith Wild
#16. I've never had a boy in here," Martin said in a serious voice. "I've never touched another man, as a matter of fact ... except for my father. That was my duty.
Stieg Larsson
#17. A young woman with fiery hair stood on a hill dominated by an oak, the smoking ruins of an estate to her left. To her right was an abyss. Tiny flecks of blue and green touched her gray eyes. Tears stood on each cheek, but her jaw was set, eyes fixed on some point in the distance.
Brent Weeks
#18. Why me?"
"Because when you touched me, I had to have more.
Chanel Cleeton
#19. It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.
Hugh Jackman
#20. No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect.
Andy Paula
#21. I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.
Elena Ferrante
#22. A blush of breeze rose from the grass. Jacob felt as if an angel's wing had beat against his cheek. He touched his cheek slowly. He felt embarrassed by the thought.
"That I should think an angel came to me."
He wept. And, again, the brush of breeze against his cheek.
Noah Benshea
#23. Everything she touched either crumbled to dust or dissolved into a powder that gave off spores. The
Michael Scott
#24. Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.
Mary Balogh
#25. How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!
Umberto Eco
#26. It touched me so deeply that my soul felt as if it were being torn open, rent apart by this storm of feelings.
Kailin Gow
#27. The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the elephant according to the part he touched. That is the way we can hope to know God.
Kent Nerburn
#29. A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.
J.R. Miller
#30. I'd say that if she touched his cock I'd kill her, but then, I'd kill her anyway.
Nicole Castle
#31. Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.
Adrienne Rich
#32. Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.
Shereen El Feki
#33. I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.
Mariah Carey
#34. A burning heat warmed my blood.
It was a slow kiss at first - all I meant it to be, but then Echo touched me. Her hands on my face, in my hair. And then she angled her body to mine. Warmth, enticing pressure on all the right parts, and Echo's lips on mine - fireworks.
She became my world.
Katie McGarry
#35. Love is illusory, Ancient One. I thought you would've learned that lesson by now." "Perhaps for some, Madame, but I have touched the deepest part of him, and there is no illusion there.
Marguerite Labbe
#36. When I haven't been kissed
in a long time, I create civil disturbances,
then insult the cops who show up,
till one of them grabs me by the collar
and hurls me up against the squad car,
so I can remember, at least for a moment,
what it's like to be touched.
Jeffrey McDaniel
#37. I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.
Romeo Dallaire
#38. You touched people's lives, glancingly, and those lives changed forever.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#39. He was like warm marble wherever she touched him, solid and unyielding, Michelangelo's namesake sculpture come to life.
Tina Wright
#40. He said I had been touched by a god, and that I am a holy man. I said, "If I have been touched by a god, it was only to curse me." He nodded. "All who are touched by gods are holy.
Gene Wolfe
#41. Letty had barely touched her food. Javier stared down at her through a pair of aviator sunglasses. "You forgot something," she said. "What's that?" "My name. Who will they be expecting?" "Selena Kitt. S-E-L-E-N-A K-I-T-T. But you won't be carrying any identification.
Blake Crouch
#42. Funny thing about getting proposed to in a shower. You can't tell which is water and which is tears. I said yes, and then he kissed me. I said yes, and then he touched me. I said yes, and then he slipped inside me. I said yes, yes, yes, and then he loved me.
Alice Clayton
#43. Wariness crept into her eyes, into her expression. Her tongue touched her bottom lip, that full bottom lip he wanted to bite. He dreamt of biting it. Now it was going to happen
Christine Feehan
#44. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart
Helen Keller
#45. She came back with the glass and her fingers, cold from holding the glass, touched mine, and I held them for a moment and then let them go slowly, as you let go of a dream when you wake with the sun in your face and you have been in an enchanted valley
Raymond Chandler
#46. It was pretty amazing. I wasn't thinking about anything but how good it felt to be kissed and touched by you. You totally ruined boring sex for me.
Jennifer Apodaca
#47. Like many persons more interested in power than sensual enjoyment, Sillery touched no strong drink.
Anthony Powell
#48. Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick ...
Cate Tiernan
#49. Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
Roger Daltrey
#50. Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week."
"And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized.
He grinned and touched his can to mine.
Stephenie Meyer
#51. Let us return to Jesus' prayer that, through the unity of the disciples, the world may recognize him as the one sent by the Father. This recognizing and believing is not something merely intellectual; it is about being touched by God's love and therefore changed; it is about the gift of true life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#52. The life of one we love is never lost. Its influence goes through every life it ever touched.
Katie Ashley
#53. Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
Graham Greene
#54. Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life ...
Elizabeth Goudge
#55. We of the craft are all crazy," Lord Byron, the high priest of crazies, wrote. "Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#56. We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.
Kevin Costner
#57. We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.
Faith Popcorn
#58. Miss Runcible wore trousers and Miles touched up his eye-lashes in the dining-room of the hotel where they stopped for luncheon. So they were asked to leave.
Evelyn Waugh
#59. I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.
Richard Dreyfuss
#60. There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.
Jim Butcher
#61. He's never shown the slightest interest in you before. I mean, he's never stared at you like you're the only person in the room when we're al together. Or sulked around for days because you turned him down for a dance. Or touched the sleeve of your sweater when he thinks no one's looking -
Claire LaZebnik
#62. I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.
Juanes
#63. Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another's need and sacrifice for it, we suddenly find our soul aflame with glorious joy
Fulton J. Sheen
#64. Logan lifted an eyebrow, looked at me, then back to Nate. That really touched me. I have no smartass comment to follow that.
Tijan
#65. Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society
W.E.B. Du Bois
#66. It doesn't matter what you do ... so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
Ray Bradbury
#67. Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.
Elmer Seward
#68. I had my first kiss under a tree near the school. It was with a boy named Michael who rarely spoke, but he would sometimes give me one of the cookies from his lunch. Maybe it was the gifts that made me feel special? I don't know, but when our lips touched, it felt magical.
Paula Abdul
#69. It is nice to touch, it is nice to be touched, but it is so much nicer to touch someone's heart.
Dixie Waters
#70. I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
Bret Easton Ellis
#71. Even so long after sunset, the sky in the west was touched with feather-strokes of crimson and black. The wind was blowing from the east, which meant that even in the middle of the city you could breathe in desert: sand and grit, cactus and coyotes, the burning scent of sage.
Cassandra Clare
#72. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting: I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more.
William Shakespeare
#73. They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it.
Jaden Smith
#74. Do you think it possible for a woman really to be touched by a man's being in love with her, and never to be unfaithful to him?
Marcel Proust
#75. Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic.
Nora Roberts
#76. All of us are the products of the lives that touched upon our own lives
Gordon B. Hinckley
#77. O sleep! ridiculous mystery which makes faces appear so grotesque, you are the revealer of human ugliness. You uncover all shortcomings, all deformities and all defects. You turn every face touched by you into a caricature.
Guy De Maupassant
#78. I here violate direct and explicit orders that were given to me, were given to me in the best interests of the United States of America. I here give you my true name, and I identify myself as the man you knew as "Frank Wirtanen." ... I exist. I can be seen, heard, and touched almost any day.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#79. Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness, may feel himself touched by grace.
Gabriel Chevallier
#80. I believe in evil because I have touched it, and it has touched me.
John Connolly
#81. You make me feel whole," she said. "Like that piece that's always been missing has been filled. I didn't even know it was there until you touched on it.
Olivia Cunning
#82. Is it my power ripening or the natural will of a man to want to control what he thinks is his? It didn't matter. Blood would paint the streets if another touched her.
Kenya Wright
#83. Nobody cared for her until the time she touched everyone like a breeze, but the day she turned into a storm and swept everything on her way out, the world stood still. She was a nightmare none had ever across.
Akshay Vasu
#84. They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.
Patrick White
#85. She wouldn't understand, and he couldn't explain. How bad it felt to be a shock. To be an idea people had to get used to. To be a moment of hesitation. A flinch when someone touched you. A wariness in their eyes.
Alexis Hall
#86. I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.
Graham Nash
#87. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#88. I've never in my life had a problem giving another person what they
want. But no one's ever been able to do that for me. No one touches me,
no one gets near me. But now you've touched me somewhere so fucking
deep I can't believe and I can't be that for you. Because I can't find you.
Sarah Kane
#89. Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
George Eliot
#90. But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Marston Morse
#91. Anxiously, he touched the lump on his head again, then felt his injured leg, groaning. "The whole affair is a mystery to me," he said. "Who would want to steal anything from me?"
"Perhaps a thief ... ?" ventured Julius.
Henry Winterfeld
#92. Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
Albert Einstein
#93. Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on.
H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.
Harper Lee
#94. There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.
Brennan Manning
#95. Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.
Naoki Higashida
#96. Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
Kendrick Lamar
#97. I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.
Bruce Springsteen
#98. Our ability to touch love and kindness and be touched by them lies buried below our own fears and hurts, below our greed and our hatreds, below our desperate clinging to the illusion that we are separate and alone.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#99. The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.
David Josiah Brewer
#100. The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
A.S. Byatt
