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Quotes About Captivated

Normally my clients were my mother, my grandmother, and my dad, and I would sell them the issues with a great color cover. There was a story I remember called 'The Invader,' and it had an invisible dome covering a city, with a giant tentacled monster eating everybody in sight, and people trying to drill a hole in the dome. And I did these epic Prismacolor pencil illustrations and sold out the three issues to my captive audience.
~ Guillermo del Toro
I love being in a city that's playing October baseball, where you can just feel everyone captivated by the ball club, everyone walking around tired from staying up late, prioritizing baseball above all else. It's a great phenomenon.
~ Theo Epstein
He was petulant even then, attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded him with a story that was too revealing. But talking to him afterward, I found myself rather captivated, as so many others have been over the years, by his engaging intensity. We stayed in touch, even after he was ousted from Apple. When he had something to pitch, such as a NeXT computer or Pixar movie, the beam of his charm would suddenly refocus on me, and he would take me to a sushi
~ Walter Isaacson
O but stay tender, enchanted
~ H.D.
When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.
~ Mark Waid
You conquer me.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'm at a really good part," she said apologetically, holding up her book.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
~ Cosima Spender
How does it feel?" he asked. "To be stuck in a fairy tale?" "How does it feel to be one?
~ Holly Black
Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been due in some measure to the fact that when your life was wholly in your lap you didn't know what to do with it. Self-sacrifice was an easy way out.
~ Lionel Shriver
Because of her frenetic nature and dancing mind, she chatted up a storm with the subjects she interviewed, who ended up overwhelmed or intimidated. Or captivated.
~ Jeffery Deaver
She stole a piece of my heart but I couldn't ask for a better place I'd rather be imprisoned.
~ Craig D. Slovak
we become what we worship (Psalm 115:8). When we set our gaze on the Almighty, we change into the likeness of the One who has captivated our souls. And we reflect His glory.
~ Louie Giglio
The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
When I get lost in a book, it's just, like, magical!
~ Marley Dias
Samantha nodded smugly as if it were just another day in court. She pretended to be captivated by a document, frowning and underlining some terribly important words, while wanting to yell, "I can't believe it either. This is my first trial!
~ John Grisham
Donovan shrugged and glanced around. He wasn't nervous or frightened; he just didn't want to be heard. He was calm and articulate with a slight mountain twang, and Samantha was captivated, both by his narrative and his dark eyes.
~ John Grisham
Friend, you're HOPELESSLY hooked!
~ Oliver James
Perhaps it is enough to say that I was caught by a smile.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The slow-moving atmosphere surrounding the cafe so captivated me that I desired nothing more than to dwell within it.
~ Patti Smith