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Quotes About Fascination

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before
~ Andy Hertzfeld
I held out my dad's magic box and let it o, sure it would smash to the floor. Instead, the box disappeared. "Cool," I said. "Sure you I can get it back?" "No," Bast said. "Now come on!
~ Rick Riordan
My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.
~ Willie Geist
I've always been fascinated by dark subjects, especially people's reactions to them. Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death if everyone dies?
~ Anthony Jeselnik
I want to be a pretty corpse.
~ Eva Braun
I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
~ Kirk Hammett
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
~ Keith Richards
I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.
~ Steven Morrissey
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.
~ Tori Amos
I have only one curiosity left: death.
~ Coco Chanel
Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.
~ Salman Rushdie
Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
~ Alan Ball
Instead, employing the disguise of my own face and name, I listened intently to all the suppositions spawned by his unbearable grievance, to the suffering spilling out of him in every word; I studied him with the coldhearted fascination and intense excitement of a well-placed spy.
~ Philip Roth
She had a huge pull on me, a huge gravitational pull on the ghost of my desire. This woman was in me before she even appeared.
~ Philip Roth
When you're beguiled it helps not to think too much and just to let yourself enjoy the beguilement.
~ Philip Roth
A very small class of books have nothing in common say that each admits us to a world of its own that seems to have been going on before we stumbled into it, but which, once found by the right reader, becomes indispensable to him.
~ Philip Zaleski
Some women attract desire. Others do not.
~ Philippa Gregory
When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
~ Philippa Gregory
I saw his glance flick over me, like a horse trader assessing the value of a filly. Whenever I looked up the king's eyes were on me, whenever I looked away I was conscious of his stare still on my face. When
~ Philippa Gregory
He had that York gift, didn't he?" he presses me. "Of making people love him? Like your father King Edward did? Like you have? It's a blessing, there's no real sense to it. It's just that some men have a charm, don't they? And then people follow them? People just follow them?
~ Philippa Gregory
Derrida s'intéressait moins au roman qu'à l'écriture, et ce qui l'a fasciné c'est le fait que j'ai fait de l'écriture un roman.
~ Philippe Sollers
Oh, I find whatever you do a source of perpetual fascination.
~ Unknown
She felt other eyes on her. The madam, a blue-skinned Varvani woman, was standing in the doorway; she balanced her elephantine legs on gold clogs, and the enormous bosom above her chain-mail skirt was tattooed with red kissystars... Don't block the window, dear heart. You want a sample, come on in.
~ Phyllis Gotlieb
The story is, that Leontius, the son of Aglaion, coming up one day from the Piraeus, under the north wall on the outside, observed some dead bodies lying on the ground at the place of execution. He felt a desire to see them, and also a dread and abhorrence of them; for a time he struggled and covered his eyes, but at length the desire got the better of him; and forcing them open, he ran up to the dead bodies, saying, Look, ye wretches, take your fill of the fair sight.
~ Plato