Quotes About Fascination

I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

That old black magic has me in its spell,That old black magic that you weave so well.Those icy fingers up and down my spine,The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

That old black magic has me in its spell.

I liked the exoticism his travels gave him, the unknownness. He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world, and it was weirdly seductive.

He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world, and it was weirdly seductive.

She had seeped into his consciousness so thoroughly, absorbing all lucid thought, that not only could he think of nothing else but no longer cared to.

Every time I think I know everything about horses, there is something more to surprise me. "I feel the same way about humans," Mac said.

Lily Houghton-Miller stood in the middle of my living room and surveyed me with the detached interest of a scientist gazing at a new variety of manure-based invertebrate.

She had seeped into his consciousness so thoroughly, absorbing all lucid thought, that not only could he think of nothing else but no longer cared to. In his hours alone, his mind wandered to a million possible outcomes, and he marvelled at how long it had been since he had felt so preoccupied by a woman.

She could have ... People still wanted to know.

At first I was queasy I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met.

I was just rather fascinated by certain what seemed to me insoluble paradoxes about reflection, about what it was like to look in one direction and see in another. I was struck by the strange capability we have to look through the front window of a motor car and at the same time look through the driving mirror and not to confuse the view that one saw inside one frame with the view that surrounded it in another frame.

Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It chuckled. "Why do you think I'm chatting with you?

His dark eyes sparkled as he looked into mine. In that instant it was as if nothing in the world fascinated him as much as me.

Men tend to devote themselves to those things which fascinate them to the point of obsession,' she observed, as they reached the overgrown brambles through which there was only a narrow twisting track. 'They are excessively selfish creatures, in the main.

Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does. I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask. 'Science,' he says vaguely.

No, no em crec que Jesús hagi ressuscitat. No em crec que un home hagi tornat d'entre els morts. Només el fet de que la gent s'ho pugui creure, i que jo mateix hi hagi cregut, m'intriga, em fascina, m'inquieta, em trasbalsa - no sé quin verb hi ha encara més. Escric aquest llibre per no pensar-me que jo en sé més, sense creure-m'ho, que els que sí que s'ho creuen i que jo mateix quan m'ho creia. Escric aquest llibre per no donar-me la raó a mi mateix" Pàgina 289

I was walking down the street. Something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.

La sua sincerità aveva un che di abbacinante, e ogni volta che diceva una cosa - qualsiasi cosa - riusciva a nebulizzare interesse e fascino attorno a sé e si vedeva lontano chilometri che le sue non erano pose.

Die Welt ist schrecklich langweilig, oder, was dasselbe ist, was an ihr interessant sein könnte, ist es nicht, solange es nicht von einem guten Schriftsteller erzählt wird.

Estou apaixonado porque vocês me falaram do amor. Nunca me teria apaixonado se não me fizessem interessar pelo tema." - Enrique Vila-Matas, Filhos sem Filhos

La tristeza fascinante del lugar parece acentuarse con la visión de esas escuadras de pájaros sonámbulos, en pleno día, es como si el vacío se anudara con la honda tristeza, y ésta de vez en cuando cobrara voz con el chillido de alguna gaviota.