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Quotes About Attraction

The business, as respected three-star chef Scott Bryan explains it, attracts 'fringe elements', people for whom something in their lives has gone terribly wrong.
~ Anthony Bourdain
But like a love affair, looking back you remember the happy times best — the things that drew you in, attracted you in the first place, the things that kept you coming back for more.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Who can really describe why they fell in love?
~ Anthony Bourdain
Some persons feel drawn towards those who dislike them, or are at least determined to overcome opposition of that sort.
~ Anthony Powell
In fact, she [Pamela Flitton] seemed to prefer 'older men' on the whole, possibly because of their potentiality for deeper suffering. Young men might superficially transcend their seniors in this respect, but they probably showed less endurance in sustaining that state, while, once pinioned, the middle-aged could be made to writhe almost indefinitely.
~ Anthony Powell
Like most people in rebellion, he was more than half in love with what he was rebelling against.
~ Anthony Powell
BEING in love is a complicated matter; although anyone who is prepared to pretend that love is a simple, straightforward business is always in a strong position for making conquests. In
~ Anthony Powell
he had been curious to set eyes again on an old flame. He was also prepared to admit to himself that he was not unwilling to exhibit to her gaze as presentable a façade as could reasonably be attained without too much effort.
~ Anthony Powell
She had no startling brilliancy of beauty, no pearly whiteness, no radiant carnation. She had not the majestic contour that rivets attention, demands instant wonder, and then disappoints by the coldness of its charms. You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.
~ Anthony Trollope
You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.
~ Anthony Trollope
She had seen no one who had so touched her. But she was alive to the romance of the thing, and was in love with the idea of being in love.
~ Anthony Trollope
The form and face of Lady Eustace, which indeed were very lovely, were distasteful to her; whereas she delighted to look upon the broad, plain, colourless countenance of Lydia Fawn, who was endeared to her by frank good humour and an unselfish disposition. In regard to men she had never asked herself the question whether this man was handsome or that man ugly.
~ Anthony Trollope
She need never again seem to be gay in order that men might be attracted. She
~ Anthony Trollope
She felt sure that she never could love him. Had it been on the cards with her to love any man as a lover, it would have been some handsome spendthrift who would have hung from her neck like a nether millstone. This
~ Anthony Trollope
A girl almost always likes a man who is in love with her,—unless indeed she positively dislikes him.
~ Anthony Trollope
out in the world there was all the untried beckoning enchantments:dancing, sensuous music, merriment--and love.
~ Anya Seton
But then, strangely, suddenly, there it was: the power to attract erotic attention, a particular kind of admiration. A kind that made you feel feminine—ladylike, even.
~ Ariel Levy
We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.
~ Ariel Levy
All we have to do is idly sit indoors With smooth roses powdered on our cheeks, Our bodies burning naked through the fold Of shining Amorgos' silk and meet the men With our dear Venus-plats plucked trim and neat. Their stirring love will rise up furiously, They'll beg our arms to open. That's our time! We'll disregard their knocking beat them off And they will soon be rabid for a Peace I'm sure of it.
~ Aristophanes
I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me..
~ Armistead Maupin
Do you always make things up? Always. Why? Michael shrugged. 'I want to deceive him just enough to make him want me.' What's that from? Blanche DuBois. In Streetcar.
~ Armistead Maupin
Look, said Mary Ann evenly, if I think you're really attractive, there must be plenty of men in this town who feel the same way. Yeah, said Michael ruefully. Size queens. Oh, don't be silly! Sometimes Michael was sensitive about the dumbest things. He's at least five nine, thought Mary Ann. That's tall enough for anybody.
~ Armistead Maupin
I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Humor was the enemy of desire.
~ Arthur C. Clarke