What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.
...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.
I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.
The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.
[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.
It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.
The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
I want people to see how universal experiences of intimacy are, regardless of demographic or label or whatever.
I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.
The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.
I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.
The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.
If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.
What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.
Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over — of love.
I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.
The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.
The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
I appreciate the intimacy of a 300-to-500-person venue; it's the sweet spot for me.
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!
Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.
I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.
Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.
Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy in a community.
When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
I love the podcast medium. I really like the intimacy of it. You're just listening to voices in your ears.
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
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