Quotes About Captivating

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.

You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

'Beyond Belief with George Noory' will be an hour-long show that cuts to the heart of what's going on with people today, topics wide-ranging and generally nonpolitical, but even more edgy.

some men are just too interesting to die

Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.

Personally, I believe "Young Adult" to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who's not quite an adult/Isn't really boring.

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

I read Butterfly's Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

Paris seemed to make good on the promise it made in every photograph of it she'd ever seen.

That smile was dangerous, she thought - a quicksand smile if ever there was one. Easy to wander in; perhaps more difficult to wander back out.

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

That was quite a story, sir!

She looked like the dangerous proprietress of all the cushions and pillows.

I'm magically delicious.

Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.

If people are going to spend a night out at the theatre, they don't just want 'good' - we can watch box sets for that - they want it to be totally remarkable.

'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites.

Beauty stops traffic.

A wonderful story!

A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.