Quotes About Captivated

I'm a total slave to a good story.

Captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give

Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!

The first time I went in, he didn't notice me because of reading a book. Not regular reading, I mean gone. He and that big book were not in this house, nor maybe this world.

I felt a little like a man reading a very grim book.

she swayed. hypnotized by the deep timbre of his voice.

He'd mesmerized her, held her soul captive. And she couldn't move. "Unless you want more than a dream," he said. She did. "Will you stay?" he whispered. "Or will you go?" She stayed. Heaven help her, she stayed. And Michael showed her just how romantic a library could be.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

I had come to realize that I didn't have any feelings towards the AT that weren't thoroughly contradictory. I was weary of the trail, but captivated by it; found the endless slog increasingly exhausting but ever invigorating; grew tired of the boundless woods but admired their boundlessness; enjoyed the escape from civilization and ached for its comforts. All of this together, all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.

designed and built the world's first municipal park. This park so captivated the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted that he modeled Central Park in New York on it.

even I myself, who am not remarkably liable to be captivated with show, have yielded not a little to the impressions of much preceding state.

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

NEVER BEFORE HAD I FELT TRAPPED, SEDUCED, AND CAUGHT UP in a story," Clara explained

I was captivated by Stephanie Mills.

I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch

Yet I made the purchase, captivated by the ring of truth, by the simple winning argument of the old man who told us plainly what he wanted.

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity.

Legacy series: Captivated, Charmed, and Enchanted

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

Suddenly, Joni was at the door and nothing else mattered. It had been a few months since we'd last seen each other - and that was, in fact, the first time we'd met - but our connection was instant. Joni Mitchell was the whole package: a lovely, sylphlike woman with a natural blush, like windburn, and an elusive quality that seemed lit from within. Her beauty was almost as big a gift as her talent, and I'd been pulled into her orbit, captivated from the get go.