Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
Carlisle Floyd

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
Mike Farrell

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.
Jennifer Connelly

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
Katherine Dunn

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.
Harry von Zell

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
Talcott Parsons

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
Benjamin Tucker

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

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
Robert A. M. Stern

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
John George Nicolay

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Willa Cather

The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.
Nigella Lawson

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

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
Havelock Ellis

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
David Ogilvy