A State Of Trance Quotes

#1. In ancient cultures, they didn*t practice theory in their dances; they wanted to arrive at a state of trance, and I think that's an appropriate approach for the arts: to create a work that is entrancing.

Reza Abdoh

#2. Once a week i have to do my radio show, 'A State of Trance', usually on Wednesday night. I try to go running at least three times a week and spend at least a day without turning my laptop on and spend it with my wife and daughter.

Armin Van Buuren

#3. I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.

Emma Hewitt

#4. Homosexuality and trance were considered abnormalities now, while in the Middle Ages people had been made saints for their trances, which were considered the highest state of being, and in Ancient Greece, as Plato makes clear, homosexuality was 'a major means to the good life.

Lily King

#5. Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

John Barth

#6. True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

Bernie Siegel

#7. The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because ... " and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.

Allen Ginsberg

#8. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

#9. Lyra felt herself moving into a kind of trance beyond sleep and waking: a state of conscious dreaming, almost, in which she was dreaming that she was being carried by bears to a city in the stars. She

Philip Pullman

#10. I believe dreams connect us to our ancestors and it is through creativity that we can tap into this in the conscious state. Creativity is a sort of trance that we have as artists that erases time and space.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#11. Now, half an hour later, adrenaline thrust him into overdrive. Storms of shale and spall burst from the ground. Ropes of sweat braided his skin. He swung again and again. The heavy pick shattered earth. Digby was in a rhythm, a digging trance, that rare state of archaeological

Shaun Morey

#12. The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.

Arjuna Ardagh

#13. I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

George Meyer

#14. And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state.

Aminatta Forna

#15. Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

Neil Gaiman

#16. Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.

Clare B. Dunkle

#17. Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

Arjuna Ardagh

#18. Her gut ached, as if love was being dug out of her with a dull knife.

Janet Fitch

#19. Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

Nawal El Saadawi

#20. An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Anton Chekhov