Transfixed Part Quotes & Sayings

If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him. — Robert De Niro

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty. — Dan Hicks

I'd guess that what's behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet. — Dean Koontz

I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane. — Ozwald Boateng

Others, craven-hearted, said disparagingly, that "he threw his life away," because he resisted the government. Which way have they thrown their lives, pray? - Such — Henry David Thoreau

She had almost felt relieved when she was arrested. The thing she had dreaded, feared, run from had happened. When it came, she was strangely liberated from the fear. She couldn't dread what had already come to pass. She didn't have to anticipate the horror when the horror was right there. With her arrest came a certain calm, a quiet comfort. It had come. She had known it would and she could stop fighting. — Amy Harmon

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives. — Julianna Baggott

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. — David Whyte

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto. — Alberto Tomba

They tell me that I rub the fur the wrong way. I don't; let the cat turn around. — Billy Sunday

Before you contemplate becoming immersed in the collective, make sure you become immersed in the liberation of your own individualism. Rescue yourself from seeking refuge in group think, or from being transfixed on the false security of cooperative agendas, and first master the essence of your own individuality. Only then will you really be a valuable part of a collective. — James Knight - The Philosophical Muser Blog

Movies were meant to stay on the screen, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up into their sweep of story, carrying you rollicking along to the end, then releasing you back into your unchanged life. But this movie misbehaved. It leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen, affected a lot of people so deeply that they required endless talismans and artifacts to stay connected to it. — Carrie Fisher

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me. — Michael Treanor