Quotes About Captivation

He was standing back in the living room, and he just had this look. He had on a tan suit, with these hazel eyes, shaggy blond hair. Very good-looking. Very well dressed. He could do this thing with his eyes. All of a sudden they were like stars - this twinkle there, this spark. I still remember that look. 'What is this?' I said to myself. 'What is this?

Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven. Oh

And, so full of his thought was Ahab, that at every uniform turn that he made, now at the main-mast and now at the binnacle, you could almost see that thought turn in him as he turned, and pace in him as he paced; so completely possessing him, indeed, that it all but seemed the inward mould of every outer movement.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes framed in embarassingly long lashes) a few times, and they would all faint.

Addiction to the razzle dazzle came naturally to the youthful me.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

Of course, he was too busy spilling an endless flood of seed into a barely sensate and in no way resisting Captain Sater down in his cabin, and this, as all well know, is the pinnacle of all human virtue, glory and exaltation.

You are very fond of this Rayojini creature. Therefore, she must be an extremely intriguing individual.

The stories are true in a way. They do steal people. But not in the way we thought.

A beast always succeeds in gaining attention....

The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.

You amaze me and its hard for me to turn away and make it not so obvious that I'm looking at you.

...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...

My eyes were drawn to him as if my world was black and white and he was a rainbow.

Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...

I miss you, " is how she entices you."I want you, " is how she charms you."I need you, " is how she entraps you."I love you, " is how she imprisons you.

I looked into your eyes and was captivated by the chaos that ran through you. I wish you hadn't said all the things I wanted to hear!

When I saw you, I saw tears of love in your eyes. It tamed my fire of love and imprisoned me in a cage of desires.

I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can't help but glow.