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I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality
— Chris Colfer
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.
— John Shelby Spong
They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love
— Virginia Woolf
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
— Leo Tolstoy
The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.
— Thomas Keneally
Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.
— Emil Brunner
Don't try so hard to be the penetrating observer. Writing is, after all, a makeshift thing.
— Anonymous
There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
— P.L. Travers
This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.
— T. S. Eliot
He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties ... broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.
— Vera Caspary
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.
— Ernest Holmes
The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.
— Thomas S. Monson
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
— H.L. Mencken
Sorry for penetrating your small world.
— Jeffrey Kosh
That soft but penetrating voice that caressed your ears and climbed through your brain like a vine.
— Ryu Murakami
The Chanel aesthetic is like the force in Star Wars, surrounding, penetrating, and binding together the universe of fashion, now and forever.
— Karen Karbo
There is no scent in it so wholesome as that of the pines, nor any fragrance so penetrating and restorative as the life-everlasting in high pastures.
— Henry David Thoreau
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,
to all one says, or does, or writes. — Philibert Joseph Roux
to all one says, or does, or writes. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.
— John Steinbeck
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
— Aldous Huxley
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
— Igor Stravinsky
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
— Ansel Adams
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
— T. S. Eliot
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
— Robert Ballard
Penetrating influence is in the power and strength of demonstration
— Sunday Adelaja
It's much easier to blow our moral police horns on all those transgressors running around than it is to live penetrating lives of holiness.
— Kelly Minter
This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.
— Jeremy Taylor
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.
— Michael Cunningham
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.
— Richard Matheson
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
— Bille August
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
— Xun Zi
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
— Lorrie Moore
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
— Varley O'Connor
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.
— John Dewey
Not his penetrating intellect, or his talents with the Force, or his unmatched skills with a lightsaber.
-Matthew Stover on Mace Windu — Matthew Woodring Stover
-Matthew Stover on Mace Windu — Matthew Woodring Stover
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
— Thomas Clarkson
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
— Octavio Paz
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
— Vera Brittain
By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe.
— Richard Smoley
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
— J.K. Rowling
In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.
— Paulo Coelho
You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.
— Toni Morrison
President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.
— Marilyn Monroe
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
— Aldous Huxley
He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours?
— Jeaniene Frost
Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.
— Victor Hugo
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
She called, "Aurora!" in a penetrating voice that could cause a small bird to fall dead out of the sky.
— Maureen Johnson
The Directing and Penetrating Vessels originate from the Lower Dan Tian [literally 'Bao'].
— Giovanni Maciocia
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
— George Jean Nathan
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
— Khalil Gibran