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Quotes About Fascination

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I loved it…I simply ate it up.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping. Lila, between fascination and horror, spoke to me in a mixture of dialect, Italian, and very educated quotations that she had taken from who knows where and remembered by heart. The entire planet, she said, is a big Fosso Carbonario.
~ Elena Ferrante
something had begun to emanate from Lila's mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving. The music had to stop before they returned to themselves
~ Elena Ferrante
Ma non riuscivo a cancellare le frasi, mi sentivo in mente la loro sintassi bell'e pronta e ne ero spaventata, ne ero affascinata, mi faceva orrore, mi seduceva.
~ Elena Ferrante
Lila era de una belleza casi fea, de esas que encanta a los hombres, pero que también les da miedo.
~ Elena Ferrante
I'm still fascinated by how our brains elaborates strategies and carries them out without revealing them. To say that it's a matter of the unconscious seems to me approximate, maybe even hypocritical.
~ Elena Ferrante
Relearn astonishment.
~ Elias Canetti
As usual, the girls were more interesting to look at.
~ Elif Batuman
There is nothing wrong with being fascinated by the dark side of life, and ourselves, but woe to those who think this is representative of reality. All too many of us sit in our homes watching TV, falling prey to the delusion that the world is getting worse. If these sorry individuals spent more time meeting their neighbors, they'd discover that 95% of their peers are fine people.
~ Anthony Marais
I am fascinated by love, which I believe is the most powerful and mysterious force in the universe.
~ Anthony S. Maulucci
It was seductive, the machine. Enchanting. He couldn't help but be swayed and impressed.
~ Antoine Wilson
Based on what I'd heard thus far, I could have easily and justifiably accused Jeff of stalking Francis Arsenault.
~ Antoine Wilson
If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Beatriz. Me la quedé mirando, y me enamoré de ella. Neruda se rascó su plácida calvicie con el dorso del lápiz. -Tan rápido. -No, tan rápido no. Me la quedé mirando como diez minutos.
~ Antonio Skármeta
Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.
~ Anya Seton
She had not, as yet, enough introspection to realize that part of his fascination for her had arisen from his unpredictability, and her conception of him as a mysterious being from a superior world who had miraculously condescended to desire her. Nor did she realize how tightly she was enmeshed by his physical attraction, a bondage woven not only from the magnetism of his body but from the very fear and pain he caused her
~ Anya Seton
Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies.
~ Aristotle
Come ti vidi M'innamorai, E tu sorridi Perché lo sai.
~ Arrigo Boito
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
To Sherlock Holmes she [Irene Adler] is always the woman.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
One of my favourite things to think about is, if you could be invisible and go back in time, where would you go? I've always said ancient Egypt. I would love to see them building the pyramids, and I've always had a real fascination with medieval time and monarchy in medieval times.
~ Elizabeth Debicki
I'm fascinated with quantum physics.
~ will.i.am
I am fascinated by quantum physics.
~ Vinny Guadagnino