Transfixing Quotes

#1. Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt and authentic memoir, Cohen transcends the pain and shame of a promiscuous past, and leaves readers with a sense of hope and triumph.

Janice Erlbaum

#2. Because what is more transfixing than the sound of people hating you?

David Levithan

#3. What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

Logan Pearsall Smith

#4. Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser.

Andrew Solomon

#5. So what are you going to wear to the apocalypse? I'm thinking something sparkly and transfixing.-Nix

Kresley Cole

#6. Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#7. Safety. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, When the slave leaves bondage, his first act is to name himself.

Gloria Steinem

#8. First rule of life: the woman always goes first. Through doors, into orgasm, and in this case, crumbling to the pressure in a battle of wills. "Fuck

Max Monroe

#9. You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Publilius Syrus

#10. I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.

Nick Cave

#11. I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

Henry David Thoreau

#12. It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

Woody Allen

#13. Your old grade book is a waste of space and time. Don't hesitate; just throw it Out.

Starr Sackstein

#14. It was like a prodigious unexpected vast great broadside from a three-decker, but of happiness:

Anonymous

#15. The more you communicate love in your relationship, you breathe new life into it.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#16. I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Rod Taylor

#17. There has been a deepening recognition among elites in the West that as you begin to lose the power to control people by force, you have to start to control what they think. And in the United States, that recognition has reached its apogee.

Noam Chomsky

#18. Knowing how little she cares about the money I could spend, makes me want to buy her the world. -Jack Henry, beauty from pain

Georgia Cates

#19. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.

Mira Grant

#20. I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

Huston Smith

#21. You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire universe experiencing itself through the eyes of one human. And thus, you are free to create the reality you choose.

Michael Sanders