#intimate

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me. ↗

— Peter Steele

#fine #i #intimate #just #like

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#getting #intimate #like #naked #songs

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#aristocracy #background #chivalry #civilization #exalted

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. ↗

— Homer

#friend #great #great man #intimate #man

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#intimate #me #novel #political #scale

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was. ↗

— Clifton Daniel

#house #i #intimately #more #president

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#most #muscles #organs #peculiar #sense

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#divine #energies #every #ideas #inexpressible

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#comes #completely #crises #crisis #gets

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love. ↗

— Ford Madox Ford

#intimate #love #tietjens #love