Trancelike Quotes

#1. When a painting I'm working on becomes my singular focus - when I am "in the zone," as I've heard people put it - a trancelike state will sometimes overtake me.

Wally Lamb

#2. Again and again parents describe ... the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.

Marie Winn

#3. The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Harvey S. Firestone

#4. A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

John W. Gardner

#5. Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.

Martha Stewart

#6. If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

Timothy Noah

#7. Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Anna Quindlen

#8. Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.

James Howard Kunstler

#9. Don't want to see any more...feel any more. Just let me fade away...I've seen too much...too much!

Ingrid Law

#10. That Massachusetts Bay Colony had been set up in England as a corporation, enabling one hundred white male religious fanatics to elect their leader to rule in a completely totalitarian way.

Larry Kramer

#11. One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

Adam Mansbach

#12. He slept curled up on the hard rock more soundly than ever he had done on his feather-bed in his own little hole at home. But all night he dreamed of his own house and wandered in his sleep into all his different rooms looking for something that he could not find nor remember what it looked like.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

Jacques Maritain

#14. He paused and manufactured a chuckle.

Carl Hiaasen

#15. Holden considered ordering her to button up her helmet, then shrugged. She was old enough to decide for herself the relative risks and rewards of eating during a battle.

James S.A. Corey

#16. Oh,yes," he uttered hoarsely,savagely."There it is.The walls of your pussy...Shit,it's like an earthquake. Come for me,baby."

~Gray Donohue

Laura Wright