Quotes About Fascination

To Richard, in a sense, Mike was a god. He listened to his older cousin's war stories of rape and killing wide-eyed, fascinated beyond normal curiosity. The photos had a profound effect on Richard. They aroused him sexually in a way far more intense than the girlie magazines his brothers had.

Richard had taken the Bimbo off his visiting list and had told Doreen that if he was moved to East block he would marry her. Since the first time she'd seen Richard on TV being taken away from the angry mob on Hubbard Street, she had wanted to marry him, to fight his battles, to be known as Mrs. Richard Ramirez.

While he was at Oxford University his fascination for the Anglo-Saxon period intensified. It was a couplet from Cynewulf's poem 'Crist', which ran: 'Hail, Earendel, brightest of angels, over Middle Earth sent to men', that inspired his creation of the imaginary world that would form the setting for most of his writing.

One night, for example, I picked up Salvador Dalí on Fifty-Seventh Street and took him to the St. Regis Hotel, not that far away. It was really him, moustache pointing straight up—the whole picture-perfect Dalí. I was flabbergasted. I only had him for a few blocks, and I was dying to say something to him, but I was completely tongue-tied. He paid me, tipped me, and a doorman came to sweep him away.

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

My definition of a good book is one that you would read for pleasure despite having no prior interest in the subject. The ostensible subject may be whale hunting, or survival in Auschwitz, or waking up as a cockroach—but you don't read it because you're into fisheries or Nazis or entomology: you read it because your life was poorer before you started it, and because now you can't stop.

I love men, I love books, I can't get enough of them.

Obedeci. Gosto de obedecer quando está em causa uma mulher interessante.

Her perfume already had me by the knot in my tie and was gently kicking my brain around inside my skull.

He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Il a compris, bien sûr. Il sait à quoi il doit mon intérêt pour lui. Mais pourquoi cela suffit-il à le faire rester ? D'autant qu'il l'a dit lui-même : on le renvoie fréquemment à cette parenté, il pourrait en être lassé. Il n'exprime pas de lassitude. Persiste dans le sourire. Et fournit lui-même l'explication à son acceptation de mon invitation. Il dit : vous avez dû l'aimer beaucoup, pour me regarder comme ça.

Sie war nicht schön, sie war schlimmer als das. (Doktor Véron über Mata Hari)

When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things - either you hate their guts or you like them a lot.

visions of Rex Kellerman danced in her head like demented sugar plum fairies.

You get a dog on your mind, it seems to fill up the whole space. Everything you do reminds you of that dog. When

Pour lui, c'est le destin qui entre en gare. Il est seul au monde, fasciné par le train qui fonce sur lui, qui va quitter les rails, dévorer le quai, l'écraser contre le mur.

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

It's not often you get to hang out with someone you're really intrigued by. So when Will.i.am invited me to visit him at home, I couldn't resist.

I was always obsessed with ancient Egypt, but any time you go back to wouldn't be as good for women as now - so it might be a quick visit.

When I was growing up, and periodically going to India to visit my grandmother, my classmates would often ask me about the trains. There was an exotic fascination with people sitting on top of the carriages.

I have always been fascinated by chefs and I make it a point to meet them at all the hotels I visit.

I've traveled a fair amount around the country and visited many states. It's amazing that Oregon is so different from Idaho; even though Portland isn't that far from Boise, it's a completely different city. Colorado is very different from Oregon. From a European perspective, I've always found that fascinating about America.