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Quotes About Fascination

drawn by the spectacle of sudden death
~ Celeste Ng
he never really got over how she sparkled
~ Celia Thomson
In order to establish a real teacher-student relationship it is necessary for us to give up all our preconceptions regarding that relationship and the condition of opening and surrender. Surrender means opening oneself completely, trying to get beyond fascination and expectation.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
However, he expressed a conviction that, in order to take root in the West, the dharma needed to be taught free from cultural trappings and religious fascination.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Ostriches like shiny things like coins and eyeballs.
~ Charise Mericle Harper
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
~ Charles Baudelaire
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)
~ Charles Baxter
Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
~ Charles Baxter
Her smile is slight, like that of a little girl, and the eyes often small as if she is peering through a gun slit at a disappointing world. The hands are callused from work and rough when they touch and she is very strong. Once she grabs me from behind, puts on a choke hold and I begin to go black into unconsciousness. Then she giggles and releases her hold and light floods back into my brain and I marvel at her strength and caprice.
~ Charles Bowden
Eliza sitting naked on a pink towel. So beautiful I could die. Concentrating, all focused in on her sketchbook, but aw, god ...her tail. Her cute little tail moving slowly back and forth, making a fan shape in the dirt. She's the one. She really is. I know that now.
~ Charles Burns
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
~ Charles Dickens
When she spoke, Tom held his breath, so eagerly he listened; when she sang, he sat like one entranced. She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence.
~ Charles Dickens
tanto se apasionan con sus errores estas hermosas adivinas.
~ Charles Dickens
I have a collar of pearls... On the ivory breast of a queen they have rested... I have topazes, yellow as are the eyes of tigers, and topazes that are pink as the eyes of a wood-pigeon, and green topazes that are as the eyes of cats. I have opals that burn always, with a flame that is cold as ice, opals that make sad men's minds, and are afraid of the shadows.
~ Oscar Wilde, "Salomé," 1891
If I could but entice you with sentences and tongue tie you with words.
~ Jamie Lynn Morris
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. And I had fallen in love with Tahiti before ever I had set foot in it.
~ Alec Waugh, 1930
Still, he felt increasingly drawn to Jade, in a way that was more visceral than tactical.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed. Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.
~ Groucho Marx
You'll meet her, she's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Alangkah misteriusnya hidup. Dan lebih misterius lagi cinta.
~ Gus tf Sakai
dijo otro- , nos traes a conocer a una dama, y apenas si con mucha dificultad se ven los dedos de la mano.
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer