Fascination quotes
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He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.
-- Abbi Glines -
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
I went brunette for a film called Fascination and I loved it.
-- Alice Evans -
These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.
-- Archilochus -
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte -
As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.
-- Athol Fugard -
I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
-- Avicii -
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We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
-- Barbara Sher -
Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.
-- Barry Sonnenfeld -
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.
-- Blake Michael -
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I've always had a fascination about mixing music,
-- Blake Michael -
There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
-- Bo Derek -
The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.
-- Bob Newhart -
What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.
-- Brian Koppelman -
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But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
-- Calista Flockhart -
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.
-- Chiaki Kuriyama -
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.
-- Chris Wedge -
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
-- Dean Koontz -
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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
-- Diana Vreeland -
To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.
-- Donald Cram -
I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
-- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. -
We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters...
-- E. O. Wilson -
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
-- Edgar Wright -
I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.
-- Elisha Cuthbert -
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
-- Evelyn Underhill -
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I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
-- Everett Ruess -
The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.
-- Flora Thompson -
I always had a fascination with twins.
-- Francine Pascal -
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
-- Frederick Sanger -
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There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.
-- Gabrielle Roth -
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world; when represented in a picture, the object conveys this mystery all the more powerfully, the less of a 'function' the picture has. Hence, for instance, the growing fascination of many beautiful old portraits.
-- Gerhard Richter -
I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat.
-- Glenn Hughes -
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
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I got a fascination with food.
-- Heather Mills -
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
-- Helen Frankenthaler -
At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
-- Hugh Jackman -
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.
-- J. D. McClatchy -
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
-- Jack Dorsey -
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.
-- Jane Smiley -
I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
-- Jane Smiley -
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
-- Jean Genet -
Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.
-- Jim Rohn -
Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.
-- Jim Rohn -
It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.
-- Jim Rowe -
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Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
-- Jose Saramago -
What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile
-- Joseph Delaney -
Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you!
-- Joseph Simmons -
I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
-- Joshua Lederberg -
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There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.
-- Juno Temple -
I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.
-- Justin Cronin -
No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
-- Karen Tei Yamashita -
I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.
-- Katherine Helmond -
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I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.
-- Kaye Gibbons -
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.
-- Lauren Willig -
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.
-- Lawrence Klein -
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
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As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.
-- Louis Auchincloss -
It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.
-- Marc Anthony -
The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
-- Marguerite Duras -
I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.
-- Marya Hornbacher -
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All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
-- Mavis Gallant -
The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.
-- Millicent Fenwick -
I've always had a fascination with hugging (I'm not really particular about who or what it is I'm embracing as long as there's a “squish†factor).
-- Misha Collins -
We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.
-- Morena Baccarin -
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I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.
-- Nicholas Lea -
My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
-- Paddy Considine -
Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.
-- Peter Benchley -
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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I have had young fascinations but never love.
-- Rita Ora -
I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.
-- Rob Zombie -
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
-- Sean Bean -
I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like that a lot.
-- Sean William Scott -
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The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
-- Shane Claiborne -
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.
-- Steve Ballmer -
I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.
-- Theo Rossi -
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Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!
-- Tippi Hedren -
God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world
-- Vern Poythress -
There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
-- W. S. Gilbert -
The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent of them -- in reincarnation are dangerous. They help to break down the standards of reason.
-- Wendy Kaminer -
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There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
-- Werner Herzog -
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
-- William Cowper -
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.
-- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont -
If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
-- Yoshida Kenko -
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Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.
-- Barbara Hutton -
I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.
-- Chantal Joffe -
In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.
-- Deborah Turbeville -
I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel tradition. I became fascinated with the religious lives of others who seemed also to be very religious, yet in ways that were quite different from my own. That fascination led to relationships, in India and elsewhere, with families of Hindus, of Muslims, of Sikhs, and a lot of study.
-- Diana L. Eck -
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I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.
-- Ed Droste -
Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.
-- Erving Polster -
I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.
-- Gemma Files -
I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.
-- Hershel Shanks -
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I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown.
-- Kenny Wallace -
I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.
-- Luisa Valenzuela -
We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to have the market cornered. She is the bestselling author in this genre. We had actually optioned another one of her Amish books, The Redemption of Sarah Cain. We retitled it Saving Sarah Cain and it did extremely well for Lifetime so we pursued more of her novels.
-- Michael Landon, Jr. -
