Quotes About Fascinating

Really rather fascinating, you know," he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush. Harking to the call of a kindred spirit, Frank at once settled down to the mating dance of academe, and they were soon neck-deep in archetypes

I didn't, but nodded intelligently, being no stranger to historians in the manic grip of discovery. It was seldom necessary to do more than nod periodically, saying "Oh, really?" or "How perfectly fascinating!" at appropriate intervals.

Elves are cool, man.

The Wyatts in general are just really entertaining, in a strange type of way.

The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.

Perhaps the most fascinating character to emerge from the history of the Rape of Nanking is the German businessman John Rabe. To most of the Chinese in the city, he was a hero, "the living Buddha of Nanking," the legendary head of the International Safety Zone who saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives.

The third method of self-distancing, as Julius Caesar and Elmo teach us, is through language. Kross, Ayduk, and others have carried out some fascinating research concluding that "subtle shifts in the language people use to refer to themselves during introspection can influence their capacity to regulate how they think, feel, and behave under stress.

In 'The X-Men' world, one can be a hero one day and a villain the next, which means there's a constant battle for a character's soul that's dynamic. I find that really fascinating.

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible.

I wanted to tell you about it because science is really important. Without it, we don't understand anything, so how can we get anything right or make any good decisions? Some people think science is boring, some people think it's dangerous—and if we don't get interested in science and learn about it and use it properly, then maybe it is those things. But if you try and understand it, it's fascinating, and it matters to us and to the future of our planet.

On another front, the clever plan of the enemy to design a Christianity devoid of holiness has made the gospel of Jesus Christ appear to be a powerless religion to many who are lost, thus making following Jesus unattractive—when in reality it's the most fascinating life possible.

I'm like a star burst - a juicy contradiction. I'm hard to figure out, but when you get to my center you're suprised. It's not what you thought it would be.

Cute enough to make you look twice, sweet enough but not too nice, a lil crazy but not too wild, the kinda girl that'll make you smile.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.

There's nothing exceptional about me, but there's something exceptional about Jaime Lannister, and I think that's what's interesting.

It is hard to decide whether Mark Zuckerberg is the most interesting boring person in the world or the most boring interesting one.

Goats, said Maxwell Hyde, are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. But I also sense the universe is magical, greater than the sum of its parts, which I don't attribute to a governing god, but simply to the surprising, ecstatic, frightening everyday reality we all know. Ultimately, I find consciousness a fascinating predicament for matter to get into.

their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

Truth is always fascinating because it always lies in beauty.

In the Gospel, there is a sentence that expresses the same ethical imperative in a more fascinating way: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: the reign of God is theirs" (Matt. 5:3). But who are the poor? The poor are those who have nothing to defend, who are detached from those things that they seem to possess, so that their lives are not dedicated to affirming their own possession.