Quotes About Fascination

There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin.

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt'ring eye and say, "Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?" The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

I read that the real Cleopatra wasn't even that great-looking. She seduced everyone with how clever she was." "Yeah, right. And you've seen a picture of her?" "They didn't have cameras back then, Squint." "Duh. So how do you know she was ugly?" "Because that's what historians wrote at the time.

She was so beautiful I had to move away.

Edward Crosby Johnson II, who in the 1950s established Fidelity as a dominant investment firm and made the same point in his own way: "The market is like a beautiful woman—endlessly fascinating, endlessly complex, always changing, always mystifying. I have been absorbed and immersed since 1924 and I know this is no science. It is an art…. It is personal intuition.

But she was beautiful, with hair and eyes so dark and long. He imagined she was a reservation eclipse. Full. He needed special glasses to look at her; he could barely survive her reflection. "You're a constellation," he said.

You know, it's amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)

Don't worry. I won't send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It's the safest mode around me. (Savitar)

Oh, come on. I have to know about the who-do voodoo that you do. (Nick)

Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular.

He probably couldn't turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.' (Abbie)

You are one hot techno babe. (Carlos)

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process.

Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.