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Quotes About Fascination

Consider the case of alchemy: it fascinated human beings for over a thousand years, and yet anyone who seriously claims to be a practicing alchemist today will have disqualified himself for most positions of responsibility in our society. Faith-based religion must suffer the same slide into obsolescence.
~ Sam Harris
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
~ Samuel Johnson
Women readers aren`t turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous.There should be at least a hint,maybe even a promise, of corruptibility.
~ Sandra Brown
Lauren whirled her head around so quickly that the motion hurt her neck. Jared's hand came up and clamped the hat more firmly over his face. He adjusted his long body to another position, contracting and relaxing muscles that Lauren didn't know existed. But then, she had never seen a masculine physique like this before. His languid movements were repelling and thrilling at the same time. It was like watching some pagan god who was beautiful even in his decadence.
~ Sandra Brown
Was it only because he happened to be the one who came along when he did? Could it have been anyone? Or was there something about him, that I liked and cared at?
~ Sara Zarr
We were all staring as we passes him, slowly, like a tourist at a wildlife park watching elephants from the safety of their wagon.
~ Sarah Dessen
They say the bottles lined up along her shelves contain aphrodisiacs, poisons and perfumes, but that only she knows which ones are safe and which lethal, for they carry no labels, and that when she starts to prepare death for someone, the man or woman for whom it is intended feels a terrible shiver run through them, as if they have already been touched by the clammy cold of the grave. Or so they say. They say a great many things about Caterina Sforza. But though there is
~ Sarah Dunant
he ducked his head around the corner he saw that he
~ Sarah Mayberry
What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
~ Saul Bellow
Will never understand what women want. What do they want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.
~ Saul Bellow
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
~ Scott Westerfeld
There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention
~ Scott Westerfeld
I take the wildering whirl, enjoyment's keenest pain, Enamored hate, exhilarant disdain.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nas?l da çocuktur insan! Bir bak?? için nedir bu açgözlülük! Nas?l da çocuktur insan!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I could not take my eyes off her dark eyes as she chattered; I could not look away from her animated mouth, her bonny my cheeks; I was lost utterly in the infectious good spirits of everything she had to say, sometimes without even hearing the words with which she expressed it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I have spent several hours in her company, till I feel completely absorbed by her figure, her grace, the divine expression of her thoughts, my mind becomes gradually excited to the highest excess, my sight grows dim, my hearing confused, my breathing oppressed as if by the hand of a murderer, and my beating heart seeks to obtain relief for my aching senses. I am sometimes unconscious whether I really exist.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I watched Charlotte's eyes. They wandered from one to the other; but they did not light on me, on me, who stood there motionless, and who saw nothing but her!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement. ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colours . (The M.I.T. Press; 1st edition March 15, 1970) Originally published 1810.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Interesting she called him. She saw him as interesting-artistically. Under the circumstances, that was about as unflattering as she could get.
~ Johanna Lindsey
The essential fascination of any exotic place is its people and culture.
~ John Balzar
To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.
~ John Banville
These beliefs are partly drawn from Scripture, partly not, and the interplay between the surface meaning of the biblical text and the meanings that have been read into it is part of the fascination of biblical study. In
~ John Barton
It may be, for example, that Sheila is one figure among twenty; but for our own reasons she is the only one we have eyes for.)
~ John Berger
Nuda plus uwaga = zaczyna by? ciekawie.
~ John Cage