Quotes About Fascination

Some are born with a beauty that seems to turn people mad. Fortunately there are very few of us like that, but our power can be unsettling and even eruptive.

He had just reached the pavement and gave now the smallest, quickest of glances back up the hill, in our direction. Our eyes didn't meet, but I saw that he was even more beautiful than I had supposed. Even more beautiful than I had ever imagined it was possible to imagine imagining beauty. Beautiful in a way that made me realise that I had never even known before what beautiful really meant: not in people, nature, taste or sound.

Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair.

Can't I just like horror because it's great? Does there have to be some big explanation?

On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.

No, pero me gustaría verlas.

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Por qué el origen de la vida pluricelular se dio en forma de un corto pulso a través de tres faunas radicalmente diferentes , y no como un aumento lento y continuo de complejidad? La historia de la vida es infinitamente fascinante, infinitamente curiosa, pero ciertamente no es la sustancia de nuestros pensamientos y esperanzas usuales.

Wonder and knowledge are both to be cherished.

The fossils were sublime, but I found as much fascination in the odd paraphernalia of culture that, for various reasons, end up in museum drawers. Late eighteenth century apothecary boxes, thread cases from the mills of Lawrence, Victorian cigar boxes of gaudy Cuban design - all the better to house fossils.

I think all worlds are magic. We just get used to it.

She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.

Curiosity is a terrible thing, but it's human.

She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.

You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success

When had men not been mystified by women? They were the magic that men dreamed of, and sometimes their dreams were nightmares.

Who is that trip-trapping upon my bridge?' Miss Davies spoke in the low, growling tones of the troll in the story. Some of the little ones covered their mouths and giggled, but most only watched her solemnly, accepting the voice of the troll as they accepted the voices of their dreams, and their grave eyes reflected the eternal fascination of the fairy tale: would the monster be bested . . . or would it feed?

nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Magic is only magic when don't know 'how', when you know it, it can be experienced everyday!!!

I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.