Quotes About Fascination

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

No idea. None whatever. That's exactly what makes it so interesting.

A woman's hand lay on the mattress now, palm up, the white fingers pale. Riviera leaned forward, picked up the hand, and began to stroke it gently. The fingers moved. Riviera raised the hand to his mouth and began to lick the tips of the fingers. The nails were coated with a burgundy lacquer.

romanticizing pathology

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. How is such a thing possible? I'll do my best to explain.

The Tattoo. You wouldn't say "charming" -- that was hardly the adjective, but something, there was something to him. If you were deep in self-hate but stained with ego enough that you needed your death-drive diluted, eager for muteness and quiet, your object-envy strong but not untouched by angst, you might succumb to the Tattoo's brutal enticement.

Curiosity = Wonder + Awe

Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know

Adoration is a powerful intoxicant.

Haven't you seen how many of them come to the palace each week, just to see us wave to them from the public balcony?

She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.

Losing yourself in a book is the best

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai ' 'Legends of the Fall ' 'Blood Diamond ' 'Glory.'

Why is it, he thinks, that women find gray hair attractive? Perhaps it reminds them of death, and they find that exciting. Maybe they find it appealing to consider the perishability of their men.

He fascinated me like an earthquake: unpredictable and potentially devastating.

Well, I'm coming with actual rain and wind. It's a whole lot more powerful. Who are you gonna be more intrigued by?

Die Frau mit dem [...] Tanz, die sich immernoch hin und her wiegt, die ist auch breit, und ich frage mich, ob sie das garnicht merkt, dass sie so seltsam versunken und wunderschön tanzt, und woher das wohl kommt, ob diese Art sich zu bewegen, schon in ihr drinnen ist oder ob das durch Drogen kommt.

There's nothin' more dangerous than a boy with charm.

I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged, a light shown in his eyes and he became almost passionate, which is why his wife kept a stack of local history books on her bedside table.

Y Lif era lo suficientemente razonable como para reconocer que las batallas y las acciones heroicas de las que hablaban las leyendas estaban compuestas de sangre y dolor y sufrimiento verdaderos, y solo resultaban fascinantes mientras no tuviera que experimentarlas en la vida real.

How's your love-life Ulli? Ulli pictures here love-life as an elusive but rapacious animal which nobody else has ever seen. This is why they keep asking after it.

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.