Top 270 Touched Quotes

This disease of addiction has touched not just me but millions of Americans out there. Me being in the spotlight, I want to tell my story because there are a lot of misconceptions. I want to let people out there know that there’s hope.

Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.

First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn’t think it would be such a big deal that I didn’t sign with Pittsburgh.

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.

I don’t think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven’t really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh… I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

There’s a lot of female singers and I don’t want to dismiss them, but the male – and I have to be careful – the black male voice in jazz, whatever you say, is an important voice, because there’s a tradition of the music that should be touched on, there’s a sound that should be touched on.

From his roots as a slave, the American Negro – sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful – has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.

People don’t remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don’t remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It’s an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.

I’m where I’m supposed to be. In that purple chair, by myself, yip yapping. I am. I didn’t fall into it, you know. I wanted to be a newscaster or a radio broadcaster since I was six years old. When I went to college, I majored in communications. When I touched a microphone, I fell in love.

Most people have been touched by the battles of mental illness in some way or another. It’s either going on in their families or next door to them, or they know people who have experienced it.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

I will forever be touched by anybody who has a choice to love someone, and they make a decision to.

My mother wasn’t rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I’ve been shot. And now I’m known around the world, and I’ve touched a lot of people with my music. That’s one of the great testimonies that’s gonna go down in history.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful – collecting these shards of spirituality – that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you’re in your death bed and that’s it, I think it’s the relationships you’ve had and the people that you’ve touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.

The first song I remember listening to in a language other than German was ‘Goldfinger,’ by Shirley Bassey. I was seven years old at the time and I had no idea which language it was or who the lady was singing it, but it touched me and I realised that it was the sort of music I liked.

When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.

Love is an emotion. It can’t be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

I think that essentially, since music was invented, it’s basically reached out and touched every single kind of conceivable generation.

Sometimes people come up to me and say, ‘You were my teen crush.’ I’m honored and I’m touched, but I also ask, ‘What happened? Why’d you take the poster down?’ I get a little heartbroken in that situation.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can’t force it.

I am recognized a lot for ‘Master of None.’ It seems like that show really touched a cultural nerve in a good way.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

For many, many years, I thought that I wasn’t good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There’s nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

As a 9-year-old child, I vividly remember the day Hurricane Andrew touched down in 1992. My family was living in the Upper Florida Keys at the time, and we soon realized its utter devastation to South Florida, with entire blocks leveled by Andrew’s vicious winds.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

I’ve tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a mental touch and not a physical touch.

I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil.

My first paying job was guest starring in ‘Touched By An Angel’ when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn’t believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.

In my experience as an actor over so many years, I don’t know when I have been touched so deeply on so many levels as I have been by ‘The Leftovers’ in my three years there. It is a profound exploration of life, of grief, of loss.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

Everything we do is very, very touched by what happens in Washington.

In ‘Dancing Drums,’ I’ve touched on music that largely brings the ethos of religions other than my own together.

As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I’d get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.

When all is said and done, I always used to say this to recruits: ‘I don’t remember one goal I scored. I don’t remember one result. I just remember the people that touched my life and that connected with me.’

The ‘Daughter of the Regiment’ that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before my career was over, I’m sure I sang the role of Marie at least a hundred times, often in productions that cost a fortune, but none touched hers.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

I’m trying to communicate here. I’m a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we’ve touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we’ve only touched 10, and that’s important, because I’m satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that’s been very moving. We’re enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They’ve been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

I am just touched at how strongly the real Hed-heads feel. It feels different from other kinds of devotees; maybe it’s the way I felt with certain bands when I was a kid. It feels like a band more than a play.

I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn’t tell her. She got mad with me, not because I didn’t tell her but because I’d done it in the first place.

The banks never sent me one chequebook. I’m very happy not to have ever touched one.

I never really watched much stand-up growing up. I just was not really that into it. But I can say I honestly fell in love with it the second I touched the microphone. It was like this weird thing where it’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is what I’m supposed to do.’

I’m no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I’m part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

There was nothing in all Douglas’s powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln’s speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

Hurricane Katrina touched our customers, communities we serve, and our associates in a profound way.

There are certain topics that I’ve come back to time and again throughout my career. On ‘To the Bone,’ there are certain subjects I have touched on before.

I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in which they were made, but in the end, it’s definitely an escapist form of entertainment.

The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment.

When I was a child, I used to dream about being onstage in front of thousands of people, and it happened. It’s not about the fame; it’s about people being touched.

For me, the first thing is script. When I heard ‘Mom”s script, it really touched me and moved me. I felt really nice about the story. That’s the reason I did the movie.

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they’re also more sensitive to being touched.

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn’t angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

I’ve always thought of beauty therapy, ‘alternative’ treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels – for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

Wood is very warm and sensual and meant to be touched.

The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.

God’s finger touched him, and he slept.

I think that there must be a point of self-immersion in a story that is a point of no return. You get far enough in that the story has really touched you to the core and deeply troubled you and made you unhappy and fearful, and then how do you get out of that? I’m a writer, so my way of getting out of that is to write.

‘Touched by an Angel’ started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God’s love to the world.

But there’s a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like ‘The Cosby Show’ that sets such a high standard of quality – it touched so many people on so many different levels.

When we are touched by something it’s as if we’re being brushed by an angel’s wings.

I’ve always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I’ve always been touched by the idea of criminality.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there’s a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. ‘Under the Ground’ is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar.

I’m not just a kid from Knowle West trying to build a future, I have some experience, I can experiment… and honestly, musically, I can’t be touched.

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

People don’t realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs, but the process of science.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that’s unheard of. They don’t wait for nobody.

Your experience of life is to a large part distilled into your performing. As you grow older, you concentrate on aspects of music that you perhaps only touched on earlier.

I’ve been around a long time, so I guess I’ve touched a lot of people’s lives – hopefully for the better.

George had performed musical alchemy, distilling the essence of Christmas into music. Adding a lyric which told the tale of betrayed love was a masterstroke and, as he did so often, he touched hearts.

If people can come out of ‘Bin Roye’ feeling even just a little bit of what this character felt, and touched your heart, that’s enough for me.

Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.

I’m different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.

My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi – ‘1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure’ – it was a beautiful station. And I loved everything I heard. But it was country music that touched my heart.

Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.

I’m just trying to make my favorite music. That’s how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I’m making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.

We don’t work for the government. We don’t carry guns. We don’t chase aliens. We are a man and a woman. The similarities end there… If ‘X-Files’ and ‘Touched by an Angel’ crashed on ‘Highway to Heaven,’ you’d have ‘Mysterious Ways.’

Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

I was thrilled to play a role on ‘Dora the Explorer,’ a show that has touched the lives of many children around the world, including my own child. Dora is such an iconic and important Latina heroine, and I’m proud to now be a part of the show’s ever-growing legacy.

I will not be touched if someone says, ‘I do not love you.’ You have the right. You do not have to love me.

Poverty is everyone’s problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

I first came to Delhi with my parents when I was 15 years old. We went to see the Red Fort, and I was walking behind my parents, and some guy who was walking along touched me inappropriately. I screamed, but he was acting so cool about it. I did not create any further scene and left.

Everything I’ve written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back.

I’m a remedial reading student from Ohio who grew up to write pieces on my mom and dad in the ‘New York Times.’ They were really touched by that – something they never saw coming.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

Other times, you’re doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

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.

I could not have done anymore, I had pushed myself to a limit that I had never touched before and that’s definitely going to change you – than going out and doing what you do in practice every day.

Every movie I touched bombed.

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

You don’t expect to be touched by comedy. But when it happens, it’s beautiful.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

So now I don’t have time to practice drums. It’s been five years since I’ve touched the drums.

My run cannot be touched. If you want to talk about longevity, you can speak the name Hogan. If you want to talk about white-hot, selling tickets, and taking the business to a height it’s never been – and, with a hell of a supporting cast, I might add – you’re talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin.

I can not forget the moment when I first saw my baby and touched her. My husband Srivatsan was with me in the labour room and his presence energised me.

In third grade, my teacher asked me to read in front of the class. I was so touched because that really was the first acting I had ever done, just reading in front of the class. And I was so amazed with the fulfillment I got from being in front of people.

My military service is the thing I’m most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can’t help but tell myself I wish we would have achieved some sort of lasting victory. No one touched that subject before Trump, especially not in the Republican Party.

Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.

Last time I blushed was when I smoothed my hands over the back of my dress and actually touched skin. Seems the material was tucked into my underwear, and everyone around me had gotten a show. This, of course, was at a romance writers’ conference.

Autism has touched many families in West Virginia, including mine.

AOL, I think, represented an opportunity for a few things. One is I’m a big believer in the AOL brand, and I think AOL as a brand has touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Reigniting that brand is a very exciting challenge and a big opportunity.

We had our own version of the seven vows, which Abhinav has written beautifully. Each vow touched my heart deeply.

I haven’t touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago’s slaughterhouses when I was 12.

I get bullied for my size, my weight, and my look constantly. It’s something that I’m glad we touched on in WWE. I’m glad we touched on it because it’s real: it’s something that happens in real life to kids all the time, especially in the age of cyber bullying.

There is hardly a facet of an Indian citizen that has not been touched by ISRO’s technology.

To this day, I still haven’t touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven’t blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

I am touched by my readers who loved my books. All the stories are true incidents in life. Now I have realised, any amount of imagination will not be as beautiful as the real life.

I’m so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me – and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren’t touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.

Actually, ‘Phir Na Mile Kabhi’ is a very emotional and a heartbreak song and somewhere it does touch the heart of the listeners as it touched my heart as well.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years.

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

It’s pretty clear I am a diehard Chris Cornell fan, so his voice, musicianship, and lyrics have touched me across many different projects.

My version of ‘Georgia’ became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

I’m less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it.

I’m always touched by people’s different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.

On our show, I’ve only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there’s still about 40 million.

Cancer has touched my life and the lives of those I love, and now I’m ready to help all that I can in the fight.

I’ve never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I’ve ever said have been to photographers who are chasing me down the street, some of the sharpest, most efficient emotional barbs. And they know that in that moment, in that one-to-one wit competition, they just got smashed.

I thought I’d be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent visits, I’d find the packets decorating the shelves in my parents’ dining room.

To hear people saying, ‘The music you are doing has really touched my life and it’s moved me in a lot of ways. It’s helped me get through some tough times.’ That’s the best compliment that you could get.

To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he’s very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, ‘Michael, I’ll never leave you. You’ll never leave me.’

I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I’m very touched by kids who don’t have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

But when I played Woodstock, I’ll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I’ll never forget.

I think everyone should – can share whatever they wish when their heart is touched and they want to spread more positivity rather than segregation and separation in this world.

I’ve played an angel on ‘Touched by an Angel,’ bringing the message of God’s love. It was such a privilege for me as a person of faith to deliver the message.

Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It’s the music of our time, and it’s ‘in the air,’ as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I’m actually playing in a collaborative band.

I have touched coral, and it feels hard like a rock, with a little slimy thing on top of it. But it is better to not touch coral, to prevent damaging it.

Everyone has loved ‘Chhichhore’ for a different reason, which I think for an actor is the best thing to hear. What I’ve been most touched by is that most people have discovered something new about the film when they have walked in the second time.

I didn’t hear anybody talking about the plight of a soldier coming back home and what he’d gone through. That was why I wrote about that stuff. If somebody else had done it, I probably wouldn’t have touched the subject.

No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, ‘Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like ‘She’s Got A Way,’ by Billy Joel did.’

There’s always been an element of ‘right time, right place’ to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock ’94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, ‘I don’t know how we did this, but somehow we’ve touched a nerve.’

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I’ve received thousands of thank-you notes. It’s just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

I’m fascinated with acting now. In retrospect, I was only beginning to chip off the tip of the iceberg with how far I can go or what I was exploring inside of me that I hadn’t touched in a while as far as emotional headspaces.

You’ve gotta understand: in July of ’44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of Europe had not really begun. War had not really touched the European continent at that point.

I lived with a ninja once: a black guy with dreads who smelled like onions and garlic. He had a magic sword. Whenever you touched the sword, he knew about it. I don’t know how.

I realised some Lazio fans were making monkey noises whenever I touched the ball. It is impossible to know what you are supposed to do in this moment. There were times when I wanted to walk off the pitch to make a point, but then I told myself that this is exactly what they want.

I think that if something’s really good, and it touches that part of their heart that has been untouched, or maybe it has been touched but they never wanted to admit it, I think that when they get back to that, I think that we are still in a place that people enjoy it the way it’s supposed to be enjoyed.

I was really touched when I reached the sets of ‘Padmaavat’ and I greeted Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He hugged me, held my hand high and told everyone, ‘Razasaab is with us again. I cannot think of a film without Razasaab!’ That was such a big compliment for me.

For me, ‘Lamb’ started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in ‘Coyote Blue’ and ‘Island of the Sequined Love Nun,’ but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, ‘Dracula 2000,’ and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.

I had seen ‘Onaatah’ when I was a part of the National Film Awards jury in 2016. I was very impressed with the film because it was a small but a very inspiring film. Since it touched my heart, I thought of remaking it.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

I got a Leica film camera and just started wandering the streets. What really touched my heart were those unexpected and unplanned moments of life observed.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you’ll never win one.

I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.

I get my highlights touched up with Susan Henry at Shades in Beverly Hills. She developed hypo-allergenic hair color products with no ammonia because she’s allergic to others; she’s an incredible colorist. She does balayage instead of the foils, and I’ll go and she will do my entire head of highlights in an hour.

Spiritually, I just have an innate feeling about things and individuals in life and I’m touched in that way that I can’t explain.

David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the ’90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother’s name, she’d be touched.

A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you’ve got to start castrating them, that’s pretty intimidating.

Through protest – especially in the 1950s and ’60s – we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigration, was our way into the American Dream. Freedom in this country had always been relative to race, and it was black protest that made freedom an absolute.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

I am very happy that the kind of work that I have done has touched people’s lives.

You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GM’s, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn’t even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too.

People in India like to touch a lot. It’s not very nice for any girl to be touched by strangers wherever they want. You wouldn’t do that to your sister or mother, but just because one is an actor, they think she is your property.

I live a life of gratitude for the abundance of love that I have and that ‘Touched by An Angel’ still has an impact that fans are still accessing.

In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life.

We think it’s a blessing that we were able to bring our music to the world. That our music has not only inspired our communities but other communities. That’s one of the greatest things an artist in any field could know: that you’ve touched the mind of another artist.

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who’s 38 who says, ‘I could’ve played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury…’ Yeah, probably not. It’s a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.

I’m really proud of the way that ‘Pose’ has brought people’s families together and touched people’s hearts and opened people’s minds. It’s really incredible to see. It’s a show about love and family, and it highlights what it really means to have a family and to be a family and to love your family.

I always thought I was a good person, a decent person. I never harassed anyone or touched anyone. And you say to yourself , ‘Oh, that’s good enough,’ but yes, I had certain jokes that I always assumed the audience would understand. This is Persona.

I think when you’re a fan of music – at least the way I’ve been a fan to artists that have really touched me – you’re with them for the long haul. They might do things that you don’t understand or agree with, but I think I’ve always tried to hold my judgment and give them the space to do what they need to do.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

The ball touched the paint a lot of times. When we talk about touching the paint, the ball touches the key for making a layup or making a play for a teammate. We’ve got to use our length and our speed. Defensively, getting deflections. Give up one shot and rebound.

Stage phobia never touched me. I was naturally drawn towards the spotlight.

‘Caddyshack’ touched people; so did ‘Tron.’ ‘Caddyshack’ is a lifestyle, and ‘Tron’ is more religious, spiritual, but both are very emotional responses.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I’ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

I had the privilege of playing an angel on ‘Touched by an Angel’ for many years – almost two decades, and we would deliver a message on the show. The message was that God loves them, and before filming every scene, we would come together and pray.

Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you’ve touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I’m stuck with her. I’m sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It’ll be on my epitaph.

I’ve stood up in front of America for 25 years, and I wish I could bring everybody into my home that I have touched in my career. That would be an amazing thing.

With ‘Iowa,’ if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers. I mean they hardly touched their drums on that album.

The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I’d been touched by an angel.

I’m more into beats than rhymes. I’m a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I’m always drawn to girls with rhythm.

The thing that happened in Ferguson touched many of us in a specific way.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it’s rare to find an artist who hasn’t been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today’s popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

I went to Mumbai thinking I will be away from media and fans, but right from the Governor of Maharashtra to aam janata, at least 60 people would come to visit me every day. There were calls, messages and I was so touched. I didn’t know that people loved me so much and they want to see me back in action.

Since the first time I touched the football, people always told me I was blessed, that I had something special.

I played many matches and got experience very early. Did I lose some of my childhood? This is one of the things that I am more sensitive about and that touched me the most, because I am a family person. There are many moments that I haven’t had the chance to enjoy with my family and also with my friends.

I’m a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes.

Rock ‘n’ roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.

I don’t want to sing about going to a party with friends, I want to sing meaningful songs that can inspire people and I think Sia’s songs are really deep. ‘Chandelier’ is about young girls who think they have to please others to be loved and that really touched me.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

What I’ve learned is that makeup well applied can really last all day. I’ve had makeup on for 17 hours with minimal retouching. Once it’s on me, and I start, I don’t want to be touched again.

There is no such thing as human perfection, and yet when you hear Lataji sing, you wonder how she sang that song so beautifully, so perfectly. Or, how Kumar Gandharva touched your soul so powerfully.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn’t tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn’t get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was.

I’ve gotten scripts over the years, but I believe it was the stories of ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Hidden Figures’ that really touched my heart and aligned with the messages that I felt were extremely important to me.

I went to college at NYU for acting, since acting was my dream from very young. I did a lot of hip-hop courses while I was there. I helped co-write a hip-hop production for the main stage of NYU, but I never touched rap.

If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we’re a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don’t need. It wouldn’t be entirely wrong, either.

Being from Australia, I’ve never even touched a gun. It’s so not a part of our culture.

There’s never a case of, ‘Ooh, I touched a nerve there.’ It’s make believe.

I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus – this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened.

You’re convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women’s lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.

I feel like traditional artists feel like everything that they do has to be perfect and touched up, and it has to be about something that would be able to be played on the radio.

Only after she had passed away did I fully comprehend to what extent she had truly touched everyone.

After the loss of my sister – my darkest time – I tried to think of the beauty she’d brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.

I could hear from the crowd some monkey noises, and this went on for about 25 minutes. Every time I touched the ball, I could hear the crowd. I said to myself, ‘In this kind of environment, in this situation, I don’t want to play football anymore.’

For many years, when I was starring on ‘Touched by an Angel,’ I produced on a number of television movies for CBS. I have always enjoyed the aspect of bringing something together and multitasking in that way.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

The basic idea of making this film was that even if one person is touched by the thought in the film, then my job as a storyteller is done.

Oh, I sat by Grumpy Cat once. You know that cat everyone is obsessed with? That’s pretty random. She’s not allowed to be touched. Are you kidding? You can’t put a cat next to me and expect me not to touch it.

My work on titles was a marvelous opportunity to learn about filmmaking. I think I touched on just about every aspect of the process, both creative and technical. And I worked with many wonderful people.

I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.

When you watch television shows, as good as they are, like ‘Joan of Arcadia’ and ‘Touched by an Angel,’ everything is this kind of mishmash of faith but not any specific religion.

When I hear from fans that they not only like the music but they’re also very touched by the lyrics, or they also learned about a specific cause because of me, that’s really rewarding.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you’d go, what did you just play… immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That’s what we’re going to miss.

I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don’t really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing – this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.

It wasn’t books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

All of the charities we’re involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she’d been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

What a lot of people don’t realise about me is that I have no idea what’s going on in the media. I don’t pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don’t enter into it at all on any level.

Sports is a terrific metaphor that’s hardly been touched on TV.

Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness.

I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of ‘Idol’ because I was just singing on the show. I wasn’t really being an advocate for anything.

Someone once told me you don’t know about cancer until it touches you. That’s when it touched my brother, Mickey. There’s nothing like it. When it touches you, it’s overwhelming.

The growing attention Americans are paying to what they put into their mouths has touched off a new scramble by the processed-food companies to address health concerns.

At Pixar, ‘Wall-E’ was our ninth film, and they’ve all been successes – more than that, they’ve all really touched people. Everybody wonders, ‘How do you do it?’ Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.

The storyline has always been of paramount importance to me. The subject and climax of ‘Phillauri’ touched my heart.

Unless you’ve been touched personally, it’s difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It’s why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they’re all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that’s the one that touched them the most.

How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can’t get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes.

To be able to walk down the street and have people stop you, not just because they recognize you, but because you somehow personally touched them, it’s amazing.

My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I’ve got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

I also was deeply touched by ‘The Nun’s Story’ because it was the first time I saw my mother in something other than a romantic comedy.

You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it’s a little overwhelming. If I’m just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses – those kind of things.

My wife and I never squabbled in front of the children. We never touched each other except in love.

You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

Do you know, Michael, he was – he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That’s important. That’s why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn’t be touched.

I know I am not for everyone, but I also know my story has touched and inspired many.

After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.

I touched Roger’s bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I’m damn proud of that.

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn’t been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

I’m touched by rock n’ roll. I’m touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.

The historical achievements for my constituency and welfare schemes of the Modi government has touched each and every person and reached across each and every household.

I’ve said that, that I’ve felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.