Quotes About Fascination

Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.

She wasn't wholly infatuated, though she liked the way he looked; but, so too did he and that unfatuated her a bit.

Watching people behave is nothing special; watching them trying to behave is always fascinating.

Moloka'i. It was not a name spoken lightly in these islands. Sometimes it was called "Moloka'i of the potent prayers," known for centuries as the home of powerful sorcerers capable of praying men to death, of sending giant fireballs hurtling across the sea, fiery planets of destruction seeking out hapless victims. Today the island was still an object of fear and fascination; but for very different reasons.

When Senta started singing it was spellbinding—Daphne said this word to herself with a further shiver of pleasure.

Einstein once wrote, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

If you concern yourself with telling or showing people how interesting you are, you will at best provoke a temporary response of polite interest until even that gives way to annoyance. If you let people find it out for themselves, you become a real source of fascination.

The real stars don't even fascinate me as much as they used to when I was... younger." "I'm sorry for that, as well.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Those who are fascinated by evil all too easily fall pray to it themselves [said the old priest at the Mission Dolores].

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

Ruthanna said, her interest piqued. Maya shook her head

Was this where my fascination for documented history came from? From a family so afraid of earthly erasure that they couldn't discard the transcript of ordering two pounds of prosciutto on June 15, 1988?

The French phrase "femme fatale" literally means "deadly woman," which understates the human embodiment of lust and peril, that intoxicating allure of sex and death that makes these creatures so fascinating. The femme fatale is a sleek and sensuous creature, dangerous either physically or emotionally to her victims.

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

Her life is deep, but I still dig her

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.