Intimate

Famous quotes containing the word intimate:

“who would connive
in civilized outrage
yet understand the exact
and tribal, intimate revenge.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

“Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.”
—Irish proverb.

“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)