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.’