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Quotes About Fascination

She is unsure about dogs. Big dogs, that is. Small dogs fascinate her for other reasons.
~ Helen Macdonald
But the only things I knew were hawkish things, and the lines that drew me across the landscape were the lines that drew the hawk: hunger, desire, fascination, the need to find and fly and kill.
~ Helen Macdonald
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
~ Helen MacInness
It is part of Elvis's enduring fascination to so many that his life story is always more than that; it is also a take (celebratory, critical, twisted) upon the American dream. To think about Elvis is to think about America: its history and its values.
~ Helen Morales
As British writer Gordon Burn wrote in Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son (one of the very few good books written about serial killers),
~ Helen Morrison
She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
When something catches your attention just keep your attention on it, stick with it 'til the end, and somewhere along the line there'll be weirdness.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Wolves are hosting wedding feasts and witches are brushing their hair today." Presence
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I was learning the ways of the world; one of them being that the presence of a certain type of curly-haired man - your type - will cause you to fidget and fidget until the only way to reach some level of calm is to touch him.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She is a double danger—there is the danger of meeting her, and the danger of becoming her. Does the nightmare of her belong to everyone, or just to me?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She was not sure how to pronounce his name, not even in her head would the sound make any sense. She had to look away to stop herself from making up more stories about him.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Safiye looked as if she was formed of fire herself, particles of flame dancing the flesh of her arm into existence. That or she was returning to fire.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I was always a little disturbed by him because I'd never heard him tell a lie. That was horrifying to me, like living in a house with every door and window wide open all day long.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The men look at Aunt Mia the way I might look at a hot fudge sundae in the hours between lunch and dinner. You know, when you're not sure if it's a good idea to go ahead -- you're interested beyond a shadow of a doubt, but you wonder if it might turn out to be a little too much for you. Men seem to realize that Aunt Mia's already making the most of herself.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The first thing he noticed with fascination was the shape of Lenin's "amazing skull"; filled to bursting with erudition and ideas, it "made one think not of anatomy but of architecture.
~ Helen Rappaport
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
~ Helen Rowland
I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.
~ Helena Christensen
We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heath, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simple we really are. That we can do the same things again and again and again and find them interesting, even fascinating and seek the repetition with a hunger as avid. How fishing was like that, and painting.
~ Heller, Peter
There are few things more exciting to me… than a psychological reason.
~ Henry James
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
~ Henry James
Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.
~ Henry Jenkins
I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.
~ Henry Rollins
You'll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
~ Henry Rollins
Mankind loves misterys--a hole in the ground, excites mor wonder than a star in the heavens.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw