Quotes About Captivation

When he looked up and saw me walking toward him, he winked, causing me to stop dead in my tracks and gape. Clearly, his winks were some sort of superpower, because I swear that if he asked me to jump from the roof of a tall building and then winked, I'd jump.

His quick brain, wise in the ways of women, endeavoured to riddle her attitude and just failed. Was she very deep, or very simple?... her fascination almost thrilled him.

He'd spent enough time in this house, getting into all their business. The way they pulled you all in, all of them, without stopping to ask you if you wanted to - It was crazy, charming, discombobulating.

When Clara played the piano, it wasn't magic. It didn't charm birds from the sky or pull the sun from the clouds. It didn't stop time or brighten the moon. But it did make people listen. When she played, people stopped. Some even romoved their hats and quietly said, Ah! It wasn't magic. But it was close

was for a fleeting instant the pachyderm Pied Piper.

Something what attract our attention and eyes will remain in our memory.

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you

She attracted him more than he liked.

her eyes devoured the following words

Undoubtedly," replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, "there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

You have bewitched me, body and soul.

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman. -Ranger to Stephanie

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

How unsettling is it, she wonders, to fool around with ferrets watching you? Their beady button eyes.

Our hearts are so often captivated by paltry God-replacements that matter to us more than the true God. When we start to see this, it is the beginning of change and the pathway to freedom.

Whether I'm performing in a club or onstage as Erika Jayne, whether I'm making records, whether I'm doing TV, I've got to entertain, and I have to take people away from their space and bring them into mine.

In TV the main purpose is to have them keep their hands off the dial. In movies, where you have a captive audience, the opening is intrinsic to the film.

I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

then suddenly become fascinated by some one else. He would be a wonderful study.

She was one of those women who kind of numb a fellow's faculties. She made me feel as if I were ten years old and had been brought into the drawing room in my Sunday clothes to say how-d'you-do.