Quotes About Fascination

the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.

One's forty, one has lived more than half one's life, the world is marvellous and mysterious. And yet one spends four hours chattering about nothing at Tantamount House. Why should triviality be so fascinating? Or is there something else besides the triviality that draws one?

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

Don't think of him. I can't help it. Take soma then. I do. Well, go on. But in the intervals I still like him. I shall always like him.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

Allora lei rise, era la prima volta che la vedevo ridere, e tu lo sai bene, Andersson, com'è Jun quando ride, non è che uno può star lì e far finta di niente, se c'è Jun che gli ride lì davanti è chiaro che uno finisce per pensare se io non bacio quella donna impazzirò. E io pensai: se non bacio quella ragazza impazzirò.

Quel che aveva pensato Jasper Gwyn era che quella ragazza era perfetta. Aveva in mente come la bellezza irrimediabile del suo viso suggerisse un desiderio che poi il suo corpo smentiva, con fare placido e lento, perfetto. Era veleno e antidoto - lo era in modo dolce ed enigmatico. jasper Gwyn non l'aveva incontrata una sola volta senza sentire l'infantile desiderio di toccarla, appena: ma come avrebbe potuto desiderare di posare le dita su un insetto lucente, o su un vetro coperto di vapore.

had been too young, and too infatuated with the plausible

He introduced himself and I fell in love with him there and then. It took two minutes, at the most. It was like getting an anaesthetic. You start counting backwards from ten and you're out by the time you get to eight. Bang. Love.

Why?" Rhett's mouth twisted in a smile. "Because she was so full of fire and so recklessly, stubbornly brave. Because she was such a child beneath all her pretenses. Because she was unlike any woman I had ever known. She fascinated me, infuriated me, drove me mad. I loved her as consumingly as she loved him. From the day I first laid eyes on her. It was a kind of disease.

The most curious spectacle in life is that of death.

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. Perhaps the work did go badly yesterday, perhaps the humans are wild with sulks and rages, but this morning can yet be saved: don't humans understand anything? Every morning, in dog pounds all over America, hundreds of dogs awake to their last day with gladness in their hearts.

Every story began with the same claim: "If you hear the first part, you'll want to hear the second. If you hear the story today, you'll come back tomorrow for another. If you hear the story tonight, you'll think about it as you sleep.

And oh, the oh my nape of the neck. The up-swept oh my nape of the neck. I could walk behind anyone and fall in love. Don't stop. Don't turn around.

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . .

As is usual with the ignorant, long words had the fascination for both girls that obstacles on the road have for a bad driver; instead of avoiding them they ran into them.

There's no such thing as addiction; there's only things you enjoy doing more than life." -- Doug Stanhope

I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

She really had cast a spell on him.

Reed had never seen Allie so mesmerized, and for good reason.

Or, as the great physicist Freeman Dyson observed, 'The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

I'm a pushover for blondes. And brunettes. And redheads. I've even fantasised about that bald woman in the first Star Trek movie. 'I