Quotes About Fascination

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

Tiana's head seemed to turn of its own accord, drawn to a scene playing out like the moving picture shows on the big screen at the Prytania Theatre.

Curran was beautiful but perhaps a little mad.

con tantos encajes pareces una ola y me das el mismo miedo que de niño tuve al mar.

Bajo la luna gitana, las cosas la están mirando y ella no puede mirarlas. Under the gypsy moon, all things are watching her and she cannot see them.

Toute Église est conquérante par nature, parce qu'elle se croit en possession de l'absolu. [...] Aucune doctrine ne peut échapper à cette fascination. Le respect des convictions adverses et la tolérance moderne sont le fruit, et chez un petit nombre, du développement de la conscience ou de la conviction que la croyance à l'absolu est une maladie de l'esprit, chez la plupart des hommes le résultat d'une grande lassitude.

It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

There is a radiance about you that will attract men like bees to nectar...

Nobody ever talked to me the way he did. But I could have listened to his voice forever, no matter what he spoke of.

Seen from the angle of someone about to plunge headlong into it, the turbulent stream of Balkan history had a new fascination. The details were as confusing as ever, but certain basic characteristics, certain constantly recurring themes, seemed to run right through the bewildering succession of war and rebellion, heroism, treachery and intrigue. In these might lie the key to much that was now happening.

With each new woman that a man is attracted to there appears to come a broadening of the outlook, or, if you like, an acquiring of new territory. A turn of the eyebrow, a tone of the voice, a queer characteristic gesture—all these things, and it is these things that cause to arise the passion of love.

L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique: savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur et accélérer quand même; courir à sa perte, le sourire aux lèvres; attendre avec curiosité le moment où cela va foirer. L'amour est la seule déception programmée, le seul malheur prévisible dont on redemande.

L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique : savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur, et accéler quand même ; courir à sa perte, le sourire aux lèvres ; attendre avec curiosité le moment où cela va foirer. L'amour est la seule déception programmée, le seul malheur prévisible dont on redemande.

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

Los vulgares rasgos de ternura -una mano apretada, una flor guardada en un libro-, todo era nuevo para mí, todo me encantaba.

He estado prisionero durante toda mi vida de una pasión que no me poseía. Como un perro ladra a la luna, me ha fascinado un reflejo. ¡Despertarse a los sesenta y ocho años! ¡Renacer en el momento de morir! Que se me concedan algunos años, aún, algunos meses, algunas semanas...

Film lovers are sick people.

That last extraordinary Face had sent a throb through her very soul, like a breeze shivering the string of a harp, and she could not account for it.

Why? How had this otherwise sensible woman who had only met Beamabeth as a screaming purple blob fallen under her spell? Or had Beamabeth slipped immaculate into the world, petal-cheeked and smiling amidst gleaming golden curls?

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

Je li se mogu?e zaljubiti u nekoga u trenu? Može li se pro?itati u jednom pogledu DNK duše?

I'm a history nut.