Top 124 Touchstone Quotes & Sayings

My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

BET was a touchstone for me and a lot of my friends - it was a place you could go to see exactly what being black in 1992 and 1996 was like and what it was supposed to look like.

For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.

The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.

From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider 'Upside' to be a loose telling of Jane Austen's 'Emma,' or 'Clueless.'

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.

In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

Relying on intelligence as the chief touchstone for decisions about whether and when to attack creates a wide opening for misunderstandings, divergent interpretations, and vulnerabilities to parties with an interest in either attack or delay.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system.

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.

'Lost' is an entity of its own. It's still such a culture touchstone that I think it'll be something people go back to for a long time, like 'Star Trek.' I'm just so amazed by the show's popularity.

I believe 'Lean In' has the power to change not only our outlook but also the world and that it will become a touchstone publication for a generation of women.

If I know what something's about, and I can always have that touchstone, I feel like I can reach for really ridiculous humor and also go really dark in terms of the things I'm afraid of.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.

Pain is the touchstone of all growth

Nas is such a touchstone in my world.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.

If there's one person I looked up to obsessively, it was Will Smith. There wasn't anyone who looked like me on TV in England. 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' was my touchstone.

Marc Frydman and I are overwhelmed by the confidence Touchstone Television has shown in us, and we're thrilled to continue trying to knock 'em out of the park.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

I'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It's my touchstone. It's the thing I never want to overanalyze.