Touches Quotes

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art.

What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.