Quotes About Fascination

to be able to enter into the stillness that is one's own true nature, one must break up constantly the addiction and fascination with being something.

As Lad passed in through the doorway, he halted involuntarily in dismay. Dogs—dogs—DOGS! More than two thousand of them, from Great Dane to toy terrier, benched in row after row throughout the vast floor space of the Garden! Lad had never known there were so many dogs on earth.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Y a lo mejor esto constituye la más grande virtud del hombre, su toque divino. El último de los atorrantes de Flores es más interesante que una estrella, solamente porque su comportamiento no es predecible.

There are three things in the world that are unclear to me, and a fourth one I do not comprehend: the path of an eagle in the sky, a snake on a rock, a ship at sea, and the path of a man to the heart of a woman.

So who is she? No wait, let me guess. Skin of the finest porcelain. Hair of the softest silk. A voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes. "You've met her?" "Oh yes, my friend. We all know her. We've all pursued her. Some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. We've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble.

She saw no harm in letting a handsome, powerful man adore her for a while.

What are you, in love with her?" Travis says. "You're staring like an idiot." The weird thing is, I think I am.

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love—true love—is something else.

She's using me. And I like it.

But this girl isn't just beautiful. She's perfect in a way that's unreal

There're all kinds of magic in the world.

I can be black magic Or boring as hell.

Our fascination with the cosmos is of the same nature as the feeling that inspired ancient creation myths. It is rooted in the desire to understand the origin and the destiny of the universe, its overral design, and how we humans fit into the general scheme of things.

Ritualism at its best is but the shortlived after-summer of the spiritual year! very fascinating it may be, but when it cometh, be sure winter is at the doors. "We all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

And then she leaned back her head with the faintest smile and, tapping her chin, asked, Are you in love with him, this mystery composer? How can I be? I asked in return. I don't even know him. Almost every opera is about this, she said, her smile growing. Love before first sight.

Beauty draws us with a single hair.

For who can move when fair Belinda fails?   Not half so fix'd the Trojan could remain, 5   While Anna begg'd and Dido rag'd in vain.   Then grave Clarissa graceful wav'd her fan;   Silence ensu'd, and thus the nymph began.

That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.