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“I am deeply touched - not as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner, but nevertheless it is a sentimental occasion”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake mommy before noon”
Joan Rivers
“I touch her hair. Her shoulders clench together and she stares at the ground. She looks like a stone bird. I am an iceberg. Everyday I float farther and farther out to sea. But that can't be. An iceberg feels no pain. An iceberg doesn't feel cold. I feel cold. I feel distant. There is no one. There is nothing. That's where I am. She won't look me in the eye anymore since I asked if I could kiss her. Even wanting turns her cold.”
Henry Rollins
“How long should a man's legs be?Long enough to touch the ground.”
J. D. Salinger
“An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men”
Charles Darwin
“We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.”
D.H. Lawrence
“We never touch but at points.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.”
Oscar Wilde
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
William Shakespeare
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”
Carl Schurz