Touching Base Quotes & Sayings

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience. — Jerry Stiller

Of course I want you," he said roughly. "Every thought in my head is of you. Tasting you, touching you, taking you in ways your innocent mind can't even fathom. I don't know a cursed thing about art or music or Aristotle. My every though is crude and base and so far beneath you, it might as well be on the opposite side of the earth. — Tessa Dare

98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever. — Stephenie Meyer

We are made for loving. — Desmond Tutu

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.' — Dolly Parton

Trust me: not everyone is on the Adriane Lenox bandwagon. I'm not stupid enough to think that. — Adriane Lenox

Although watching her three children toddle to her, sleep-stained from their nap, rubbing their eyes while they make their way to Mama, little hands touching her knee or arm as if she were home base, as if they knew they were safe ... it hurts me sometimes to watch. — Gillian Flynn

Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it. — Creighton W. Abrams Jr.

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear — Jacqueline Carey

Borrow a child and get on welfare.
Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child,
or go to the public park with the child, and take the child
to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and
be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don't talk
back ... — Susan Griffin

The restaurant was waning, indifferently relaxing its illusion: for the late-comers a private illusion took its place. Their table seemed to stand on their own carpet; they had a sensation of custom, sedateness, of being inside small walls, as though dining at home again after her journey. She told him about her Mount Morris solitary suppers, in the middle of the library, the rim of the tray just not touching the base of the lamp ... the fire behind her back softly falling in on its own ash-no it had not been possible to feel lonely among those feeling things. — Elizabeth Bowen

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations. — Tom Wopat