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Quotes About Fascination

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
~ Dick Cavett
As a kid, I remember hearing about Boba Fett before I even saw Boba Fett.
~ Dave Filoni
I love and adore Salman Khan. Every year I see him on Bigg Boss' and I just freeze. I'm head over heels with his eyes and smile. He is a very charming personality.
~ Jasmin Bhasin
My mom has a big ol' crush on Arne Duncan, so I hear about and see pics of him all the time. I think he could look great in heels!
~ Justin Tranter
Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
~ Taissa Farmiga
I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America, so, granted, it is part of our heritage, and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.
~ Joe Perry
I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.
~ James Garner
Americans are hidden dragons to me.
~ Ang Lee
I've gone after stuff that is short and highly appealing.
~ Chunky Pandey
I think 'She Drives Me Crazy' is hilarious and good.
~ Kurt Vile
I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of 'Hill Street Blues' that day.
~ Mark Pellegrino
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.
~ George Orwell
The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction.
~ George Orwell
There's always a fascination in watching anybody do a job which he really understands. Watch a woman—a woman who really knows how to cook, I mean—rolling dough. She's got a peculiar, solemn, indrawn air, a satisfied kind of air, like a priestess celebrating a sacred rite.
~ George Orwell
It's a big world, and I really like it.
~ George Saunders
I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheels. For a long time, we were parked a few yards beyond without getting out, fully absorbed in the sight of the corpse. The horror and despair at so much bloody flesh, nauseating in part, and in part very beautiful, was fairly equivalent to our usual impression upon seeing one another.
~ Georges Bataille
The fascination of sleep, which pits the lure of the void against the obstinacy of an impotent will, is an obstacle that life has perhaps never surmounted.
~ Georges Bataille
Querían pelexar e vencer. Querían loitar, conquista-la súa felicidade. Pero, ¿como loitar? ¿Contra quen? ¿Contra que? Vivían nun mundo estraño e irisado, o universo reverberante da civilización mercantil, os cárceres da abundancia, as trampas fascinantes da felicidade.
~ Georges Perec
Or from even further back, from as far back as she could remember, there rose the fascination she had felt as a little girl every time she saw her grandfather shaving: he would sit down, usually around seven in the morning, after a frugal breakfast, and with a serious air make up his lather with a very soft brush in a bowl of very hot water, a lather so thick and white and firm that even after more than seventy-five years it still made her mouth water.
~ Georges Perec
Aveva comunque il fascino di certi tisici: lineamenti delicati, pelle trasparente, labbra sensuali e insieme beffarde.
~ Georges Simenon
Più io sono goffo avvicinandomi a lei e più, ne sono sicuro, lei è contenta. È il mio turbamento che osserva piuttosto di pensare al suo piacere, quell'attimo in cui per un miracolo che si riproduce alcuni milioni di volte al giorno, un corpo di donna diventa per un uomo la sola cosa importante al mondo.
~ Georges Simenon
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
~ Georgette Heyer
How very odd, to be sure!' 'What is?' She walked on, her brow a little furrowed. 'Wishing to kiss someone you never saw before in your life. It seems quite mad-brained to me, besides showing a sad want of particularity.
~ Georgette Heyer
Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible.
~ Georgette Heyer