Tactility Quotes & Sayings

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me. — Sean Scully

It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards. — Franz Kafka

i'm sorry
if i
wasn't
the daughter
you had
in mind
-i only ever wanted to make you proud- — Amanda Lovelace

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. — Chris Cleave

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck. — Joseph Hall

The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road. — Vladimir Nabokov

Time explodes, so again, eternity is not something everlasting. You can have it right here, now, in your experience of your earthly relationships. I've lost a lot of friends, ... that moment when I was with them has an everlasting quality about it that is now still with me. What it gave me then is still with me, and there's a kind of intimation of immortality in that. — Joseph Campbell

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines. — Twyla Tharp

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies. — Abdolkarim Soroush