A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Edna Ferber

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
Walter Benjamin

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
John O'Hara

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.
Brian Behlendorf

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
John Philip Sousa

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
Howard Staunton

I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
Noel Coward

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.
Sonny Perdue

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
Wayne Gretzky

I find these shows very touching sometimes.
Robert Stack

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
James Herriot

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

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.
Kathy Mattea

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
Noel Coward

If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.
Troy Perry

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
Peter Porter

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
Robert Klein

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.
Gisele Bundchen

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Naguib Mahfouz