Quotes About Fascination

Dessie was not beautiful. Perhaps she wasn't even pretty, but she had the glow that makes men follow a woman in the hope of reflecting a little of it.

Her dark eyes made little reflected stars. She was looking at him as she was always looking

Still, my fascination with Buchanan did not abate, nor was I able, as the Seventies set in, to move the novel forward through the constant pastiche and basic fakery of any fiction not fed by the springs of memory -- what Henry James calls (in a letter to Sarah Orne Jewett) the fatal cheapness [and] mere escamotage of the 'historic' novel.

Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

A spell perhaps?" The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.

There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.

So tall and lithe in his suede and leather outfit. So utterly gorgeous it almost ached to look at him.

There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Boredom is simply the absence of an interesting perspective.

You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged.

To tell the truth, I had reached the point with Albertine where (if everything continues in the same way, if things follow the normal course) a woman has no more interest for us except as the means of transition to another woman.

Any life that represents something mysterious, like some last illusion to be shattered, exerts a pull on us.