I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence…

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I have a slight oral fixation.”

— Julie James

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation…

— Julian Huxley

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can…

— Dalai Lama

“A wish without a potential is just a fixation.”

— Zinny Ekechukwu

When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

— Momofuku Ando

Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied.…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we become free…

— Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche

The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey…

— Jen Lancaster

I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech…

— Astra Taylor

England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a…

— William Crookes

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards,…

— Jonah Goldberg

Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed…

— V. S. Pritchett

The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago…

— Maureen Dowd

We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things…

— Terri Windling