Quotes About Captivation

He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced.

Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

Yes, Marya thought, the smell of woodsmoke and old snow pushing back her long black hair. Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

And beauty draws us with a single hair...

You sing siren songs of inducement!

She was in a terrible state, for she found that she could neither take her eyes off him nor look at him.

She was so incredibly beautiful—she seemed to be wearing the sunlight, rearranging it around her from time to time, with a movement of one hand, with a movement of her head, and with her smile—that, when she paid the man and started out of the store, I started out behind her.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

I do radio gigs, three-minute spots, solo shows, so I still get plenty of practice at the sniper attack - me at a piano or with a guitar, having to win people over fast.

I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

Every little thing she does is magic.

Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.

Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It's the writer's job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make you want to pick up the box, and to peer inside.

The magic of a face.

You're well and truly hooked, Gallagher, he thought, and decided he rather enjoyed the sensation.