Quotes About Fascination

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Here is a truth: people are very fascinated by themselves.

Beauty is power.

Most guys aren't that picky. They may have quicker reflexes around large breasts, but they need more to keep them interested. We know plenty of women whose sex appeal makes their breasts exactly the right size.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

It was all a matter of a Goddess dark, hidden, deadly, horribly desirable.

With such exquisite women there is little need for aphrodisiacs....

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you.

She finds the ribbon she uses as a bookmark, opens the book, and the museum falls away.

He says she is his émerveillement.

The other boys crane their necks. Dr. Hauptmann's lips are pink and his eyelids are improbably thin. As though he is watching Werner even when he blinks. He says, "Make them all.

That Dr. Hauptmann might have ties so far up—that the telephone on his desk connects him with men a hundred miles away who could probably wag a finger and send a dozen Messerschmitts streaming up from an airfield to strafe some city—intoxicates Werner. We live in exceptional times.

Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

Consider a single piece glowing in your family's stove. See it, children? That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million . . .

The murex Dr. Geffard keeps on his desk can entertain her for a half hour, the hollow spines, the ridged whorls, the deep entrance; it's a forest of spikes and caves and textures; it's a kingdom. Her

But he didn't have language for what he really wanted to say; he couldn't explain how her wildness that day, on the road, had thrilled him as much as it terrified him. He couldn't tell her that at night, sweating in the folds of his mosquito net, he had begun to recite her name over and over, as if it were a spell that might summon her into his room.

The Portuguese man-of-war," Sayle continued. He had a heavy accent brought with him from the Cairo marketplace. "It's beautiful, don't you think?" "I wouldn't keep one as a pet," Alex said. "I

think there was a part of her that was attracted to people who kill.' 'She admired them?

All that was missing was the hookah and the belly dancers. Charles le Mesurier was sitting in

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.