One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
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.
A few can touch the magic string and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing but die with all their music in them!
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.
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
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.
I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema in that moment I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
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.
Our songs touch people and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue running from a woman's toes to her ears lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between given often enough and sincerely enough would add immeasurably to world peace.
Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
An American monkey after getting drunk on brandy would never touch it again and thus is much wiser than most men.
I don't practice but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
When I sing I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love when you really touch someone for the first time but it's gigantic multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
These technologies can make life easier can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups get medical information the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.