Quotes About Fascination

Hay un verbo inglés, to haunt,, hay un verbo francés, hanter, muy emparentados y más bien intraducibles, que denominan lo que los fantasmas hacen con los lugares y las personas que frecuentan o acechan o revisitan; también, según el conteto, el primero puede signficar encantar, en el sentido feérico de la palabra, en el sentido de encantamiento...

and what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy

Homer, maybe you can tell me why I am fatally attracted to women who are no more than mirrors of myself.

I think you're beautiful, the only beautiful person I've ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination—it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron.

To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.

They watched him walk away. Now, there's a fascinating fellow, Adele breathed. So charming, Pippa's grandmother sighed. He minces, Pippa said.

Lost causes had a romantic charm for her

Because you're such a wonderful spectacle: I always like to see what you are doing.

Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

But she saw that his eyes, which were sand-colored like his face, and sandy-lashed, had found another occupation. They were fixed on Conchita Closson, who sat opposite to him; they rested on her unblinkingly, immovably, as if she had been a natural object, a landscape or a cathedral, that one had traveled far to see, and had the right to look at as long as one chose. He's drinking her up like blotting paper. I thought they were better brought up over in England!

In this interpretative light Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always something new to read in her eyes.

Each time you happen to me all over again

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

The Parisians looked at each other constantly but were more curious about each other's shoes than their sexual availability.

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.

Maddened by Mystery.

Indoor cats don't lose their wildness, which is one reason I am so fascinated by them. They seem to retain all their jungly qualities no matter what.

Pero la desearías si no te rehuyera? Ésa es la pregunta que cabe hacerse sobre una mujer.»

I find everything boring, therefore I'm fascinating.

He was an inconsolable wreck. He couldn't live with so much doubt and so much intensity. He vomited colostrum over his mother and then in the hazy moment of emptiness that followed, he caught sight of the curtains bulging with light. They held his attention. That's how it worked here. They fascinated you with things to make you forget about the separation.

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.