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Quotes About Shrink

He would come back. She held the keys to his soul. But meanwhile, how he would torture her with his battle against her. She shrank from it.
~ D H Lawrence
She was uneasy, perturbed to her last fibre. She wanted to remain clear, with no touch on her. A wild instinct made her shrink away from any hands which might be laid on her.
~ D. H. Lawrence
themselves shrinking until they were
~ Daisy Meadows
He was as blank, and white as the walls, which was just fine with him. Maybe if they'd given him some vodka and weed, his head would have straightened out. He had said that to the shrink – one of them, at least – but if he remembered correctly, it hadn't gone over very well.
~ Chet Williamson
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
~ lennon john iv
Over the years he seemed to have shrunk, trying to make himself invisible to Ivy, or maybe to God.
~ Wendell Berry
SHRINK THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRESSURE MOMENT
~ Hendrie Weisinger
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
~ Samuel Beckett
The next day I went for a scheduled visit with Susan Coates, Dylan's shrink, who I was conferring with to try and navigate the waters and do what was best for the kids. She broke the news to me that I was being accused of molestation and she had to report it. It was the law.
~ Woody Allen
All the shrinks walked on eggshells with Mia, enabling her to prevent me from having any contact with my kids.
~ Woody Allen
Truth doesn't make sense, the hugeness of the world makes me shrink. What I probably asked for and finally found still ended up leaving me unprepared, like a child walking alone across the earth.
~ Clarice Lispector
The large yellow rectangle shrinks until, like a tiny knot on a long thread, it is woven into the city's fabric.
~ Unknown
You're shrinking Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!
~ Peter Hedges
People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.
~ Hugh Laurie
When I mention to my shrink that I play roles in public—acting wild-style—she smiles and I ask her what's funny. "You're a trickster, Kit," she says. "That's not a bad thing. Tricksters have a key function in life and art.
~ Unknown
What happened to the Ford?" "God, Gloria made me sell it. Supposedly, I had too much independence—that's the new theory, that I ran off because of independence. Also, she wants me to see a shrink. She's convinced that anyone who wouldn't want to live with her has to be crazy.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
A fear that makes you shrink from the prospect of any further such experience is matched by a compulsion to see more and to understand.
~ Dean Koontz
Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings the city within view, but not within reach, of most Brazilian subsistence farmers. The new expressway expands Chicago, but it sucks those who are well-wheeled away from a downtown that decays into a ghetto.
~ Ivan Illich
The zero point of death has begun to shrink behind them, nobody can live with intense emotions for very long, it's too exhausting, and everything that can be described can also be made harmless.
~ Damon Galgut
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
~ John Lennon
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
~ Marcel Proust
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The time we have to spend each day is elastic: it is stretched by the passions we feel; it is shrunk by those we inspire; and all of it is filled by habit.
~ Marcel Proust
In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
~ Johnny Carson