#touch

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

#believed #church #gays #had #i

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#going #illusion #like #real #reality

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ↗

— Plato

#becomes #everyone #poet #touch

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. ↗

— Robert Plant

#american #american music #americana #blues #chicago

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#acting #control #nerves #over #touches

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. ↗

— Patti Smith

#artists #burdens #citizen #even #know

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#constitution #itself #said #touchstone #ultimate

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#i #i think #joy #lot #out

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#critical #culture #i #our #perfect

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz. ↗

— Joe Simon

#after #american #artists #book #carried