Quotes About Captivation

The loved idea of Angelo still rose upon my fancy, and its powers of captivation, heightened by absence, and, perhaps even by despair, pursued me with incessant grief. I concealed in silence the anguish that preyed upon my heart, and resigned myself a willing victim

Why is it that you still beguile me – As wind, stone, bird – and all the likes? Why is that you smile on me – With sudden summer lightning strikes?

Every good seduction first begins with a baited hook.

Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease.

As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

You intoxicated me. It was just as though you were making me love you by some invisible force.

He was consumed with wonder by her presence.

Por un momento el último rayo de sol cayó con una afectación romántica sobre su cara radiante; su voz me llevaba dejándome sin aliento conforme yo escuchaba...

He stared at her, and the impression of her beauty grew until, uncommitted by a word, by even a formal introduction, he felt himself going out toward her, watching the turn of her lips and the shifting of her cheeks when she smiled.

Je crois que cette voix l'attachait plus que tout, avec ses inflexions exaltantes, envoûtantes, car aucun de ses rêves n'aurait pu en imaginer de plus belle — cette voix était un chant d'immortalité.

Ils sont arrivés au coucher du soleil, et pendant que nous naviguions parmi des centaines d'invités en effervescence, Daisy faisait jouer dans un murmure les sortilèges de sa voix.

I think that voice held him most with its fluctuating feverish warmth because it couldn't be over-dreamed.

Así amo: fijo, por bella. atractiva o, de cualquier otro modo amable, una figura de mujer o de hombre –donde no hay deseo, no hay preferencia de sexo– y esa figura me obsesiona, me cautiva, se apodera de mí. Así que no quiero más que verla, ni miro nada con más terror que la posibilidad de llegar a conocer y a hablar con la persona real que esa figura manifiesta en apariencia.

I liked business. I found it fascinating.

I find it fascinating the things that capture people's imagination.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Some movies are simply magical. You can't really put your finger on any particular reason behind its success.

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.

Se puede conquistar a una muchacha con un poema, pero no se la puede retener con un poema.

You have a claim on her, Jacobs? I think I might like to keep her.

He could talk to a buzzard and make it coo.

and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the workaday world again.