“In touch! There’s a slimy phrase. Touch, hell. Gripped! Pawed, rather. Mauled and massaged and pounded by FM voices.”
The Murderer (1953)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
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“But oh for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
"Break, Break, Break" (1842)
“Beyond the reach of human rage
A drop of hell, a touch of strange…”
Stephen King book The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
“Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him.”
Charles Barkley (1963) American basketball player
From CNN interview, Nov 22 2004, following a fight between players and fans at a recent Pistons-Pacers game.
Robert Fisk (1946) English writer and journalist
Source: The Great War for Civilization (2005), Chapter 11: 'Fifty Thousand Miles From Palestine' (page 464)
Francisco Luís Gomes (1829–1869) Indo-Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, political scientist and MP in the Portuguese parli…
Os Brâmanes, p. 474
Os Brâmanes (1866)
“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint
Third public examination (24 February 1431) http://www.stjoan-center.com/Trials/sec03.html; part of this testimony has sometimes been paraphrased: If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. <br class="br">Trial records (1431) <br class="br">Context: The light comes at the same time as the Voice. … I will not tell you all; I have not leave; my oath does not touch on that. My Voice is good and to be honored. I am not bound to answer you about it. I request that the points on which I do not now answer may be given me in writing. … You shall not know yet. There is a saying among children, that 'Sometimes one is hanged for speaking the truth.'" [She is asked : Do you know if you are in the grace of God? ] If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
The Sign (May 1938) This has been misquoted as: The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.