Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua

It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.
Max Webber

It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
Anson Jones

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
William McFee

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

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

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
Rita Dove

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.
Eric Braeden

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
Keanu Reeves

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
Linda Lavin

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O. Douglas

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara de Angelis

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
G. Stanley Hall

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.
Paul Kane

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
Havelock Ellis

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
Edward Albert

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.
Isabelle Huppert