Penetrate

Famous quotes containing the word penetrate:

“Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

“You have to penetrate a woman’s defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.”
—Bob Guccione (b. 1930)