Quotes About Transfixed

#1. Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung's work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again ... in Messiaen, a feeling for the music's reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.

Donal Henahan

#2. She turned to John to share the joke, and he was transfixed, looking into the catastrophe of her sagging, bleary-eyed face.

R.A. MacAvoy

#3. Transfixed by the bright gaze of a lizard, I become calm. This stone on which the lizard lies was under the sea when lizards first came into being, and now the flood is wearing it away, to return it once again into the oceans.

Peter Matthiessen

#4. We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

Leonora Carrington

#5. Any earthly production would have been cancelled at the slightest suggestion of rain, but this was William's Stage - it was William's call - and if the children danced and the congregation remained transfixed, the show would go on.

Jake Vander Ark

#6. To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins,
All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception)
Is agony immobilized. While Time,
The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Carson McCullers

#7. He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

Jonathan Stroud

#8. What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.

Isabel Yosito

#9. She seemed to have waited so long to hear those words that for a moment the earth stood still, and the moon, the trees, the grotesque shadows across the heath, became in that instant transfixed in her memory. How shall I bear this exquisite happiness? It is too much: it will destroy me.

Vera Brittain

#10. Nice said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off.

Tao Lin

#11. Transfixed beneath the rays of a jaundiced star, he huddled against the crumbling parapet, fighting an evil the priests assumed long vanquished.

Grace Draven

#12. The monster's bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seemed transfixed by his pajamas. Magnus was frankly offended. He had not invited any wives of crazed hate-cult leader to come around and pass judgement on his wardrobe.

Cassandra Clare

#13. For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Ernest Becker

#14. We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.

Pat Conroy

#15. And so long as you say 'one' instead of 'I,' there's nothing in it and one can easily tell the story; but as soon as you admit to yourself that it is yourself you feel as though transfixed and horrified.

Franz Kafka

#16. It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

Charles Bukowski

#17. We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters ...

E. O. Wilson

#18. I'm in love with you," I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. "Of course you are," he replied. "I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.

Anne Rice

#19. He felt him transfixed, captured, nailed by his vow to the hard wood of the impossible thing he had to do.

Elizabeth Goudge

#20. Richard cocks his hand at me and yelps, "Tootles" then saunters off, and for a moment I am transfixed, imagining him walking to Ricky Martins, "Shake your bon-bon!

Mira Harlon

#21. Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the monster a wide berth.

Hermann Hesse

#22. promulgation of transfixed senses to circumnavigate total deeds brings forth everlasting preservation with augmented courage

Abdul Rehman

#23. Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Lewis Thomas

#24. We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

Peter Benchley

#25. We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

Dan Brown

#26. As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'

Raymond E. Feist

#27. Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She'd become a woman. An elegant woman.

Jan Moran

#28. Gazing into his eyes, I was lost in their intensity. It was like looking into the bluest sky and carrying on to infinity. I felt mesmerised, hypnotised and transfixed all at once.

Pat Spence - Blue Moon

#29. Emma was horrified and transfixed at the same time. She was watching Jonah Kinlock doing what he did best. There was a certain macabre beauty in watching form and function wedded together. In Jonah's case, a dance of beauty and death.

Cinda Williams Chima

#30. I began to wait. My thoughts swung wildly. I was either fixed on practical details of immediate survival or transfixed by pain, weeping silently, my mouth open and my hands on my head.

Yann Martel

#31. Dear God in heaven."
Nik and Ban turned away, but Alek stood. Transfixed. "My God, y'all. She's the worst goddamn dancer I've ever seen."
"Turn away. It'll hurt your eyes. Turn away!

Shelly Laurenston

#32. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Viktor E. Frankl

#33. I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

Amber Heard

#34. There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#35. Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

Ariel Garten

#36. I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.' It was my turn to laugh.

Anne Rice

#37. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

Alan Lightman

#38. At this horror I sank nearly to the lichened earth, transfixed with a dread not of this nor any world, but only of the mad spaces between the stars.

H.P. Lovecraft

#39. Words are dead, until action brings them life.

Anthony Liccione