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Quotes About Captivating

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
~ Steve Toltz
I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.
~ Kameron Hurley
Te Papa Museum is brilliant.
~ Richard C. Armitage
See, many people can recognize an enchanting world within every raindrop rested atop the petals of a blossoming pink dahlia, but fail to notice how captivating they can still be when sat upon faded glass.
~ Photographer Johnny Joo
I like my visuals to feel like movies.
~ Saweetie
A book's title is vital.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.
~ David Cook
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
~ Malik Bendjelloul
My character in 'Primeval' is a bookworm but she is very sexy.
~ Laila Rouass
I've got a very interesting background.
~ Jackie Chan
Baltimore is wonderful. Super-weird city.
~ Weyes Blood
In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.
~ Jon Meacham
She smiled a smile to bring a thousand ships to harbor.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
She is deranged," I said, "but so so playful.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
daemonic beauty
~ Joseph Campbell
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
~ Aberjhani
The people we fall in love with we find singularly captivating, as are any of the people (or ideas) that inspire us, for better or for worse.
~ Adam Phillips
Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical.
~ Ron Chernow
Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.
~ Taron Egerton
Sam LeClaire was a good-looking son of a bitch.
~ Rachel Gibson
Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.
~ Neil Innes
I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.
~ Alison Moyet
I would like to act in a film that I can watch even after five years without getting bored.
~ Konkona Sen Sharma
If you come across as boring or monotone, you're going to lose your audience.
~ Lewis Howes