Fixation Quotes
38 quotes by 37 authors
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.
— Frederick Lenz
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I have had death threats from people with fixations.
— Enya
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It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's…
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.
— Susan Orlean
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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 Bone,…
— Jen Lancaster
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Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I…
— Ingmar Bergman
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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
— Isabel Allende
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Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might…
— Paul Auster
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
— Naomi Wolf
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[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is…
— Thomas Wolfe
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We''re all misfits here,†he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all.  For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere…
— Terri Windling
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Where are we going? You never told me." "My home in Romania." Wow, this guy wasn’t kidding with his Dracula fixation.
— Jeaniene Frost
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But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.
— Linford Christie
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I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
— Mark Shriver
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I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.
— David Liss
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The mammary fixation is the most infantile and the most American, of the sex fetishes
— Molly Haskell
Who Wrote These Fixation Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 38 Fixation Quotes, led by these top contributors: