Quotes About Fascination

Just like going to the moon made us learn more about earth, achieving your goals will make you learn more about yourself and get fascinated.

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

If I could but entice you with sentences and tongue tie you with words.

Jonas Wergeland's first stroke of genius, albeit unbeknownst to himself, was to choose a girl as his best friend. It was Nefertiti who taught him that women are, first and foremost, teachers then mistresses - and above all that when you come right down to it, the female is a very different and, more o the point, a much more fascinating creature than the male.

This stream of watching made what was watched wanted.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.

Do you believe in love at first sight? Or do I need to walk past again?

Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.

I tried to avoid looking at the skull, but somehow I wanted to keep checking that it was still there. It's like when you have a sore in your mouth or tooth ache – your tongue keeps going back to check it still hurts.

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.

Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.

Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us.

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

Happy people are rarely interesting.

I was in awe of him. I didn't speak; I listened.

I was in awe of him. I didn't speak; I listened. He was flawless.

She says getting lost in a book is a magic trick, which means that I'm a wizard.

Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong

Moths were drawn to light and always took some away with them when they found it.

I saw this beautiful girl the other day. She had an ass behind her that seemed to go on for days. In fact, I'm still going on about her.

I want to learn everything about you. I want to change my major to Mallory Quinn and learn as much as I can.