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Quotes About Captivation

The moment you enter the room, the earl becomes far more animated. It is obvious that he is fascinated by you. One can hardly have a conversation with him, as he is constantly straining to hear what you are saying, and watching your every movement.
~ Lisa Kleypas
With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
~ Rik Mayall
dark-haired girl?
~ Jeffrey Archer
And of course there was the sheer physical fact of her, the blood-tinged blade that she was, the riot of color that caught everyone's attention.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
He's so cute, I can't help myself.
~ Jerry Spinelli
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds, we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.
~ Jerry Spinelli
You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You thought of me every waking minute. You dreamed about me. You couldn't stand it. You couldn't let such wonderfulness out of your sight. You had to follow me.
~ Jerry Spinelli
And we want car wrecks. We say we don't. But we love them. To look is to love. A thousand people drive past the statue of David. Two hundred look. A thousand people drive past a car wreck. A thousand look.
~ Jess Walter
When you go on stage and it's your show, you don't really have to work that hard to win that audience because you've already won them.
~ Unknown
Music draws me in. As soon as I hear it, I'm there. I'm stuck in it.
~ Tash Sultana
Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.
~ Margaret Bourke-White
And let the clean space shine in the hands of its captor the slow, elegant, daily drinker of the waves.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
charmed the words out of
~ Unknown
Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.
~ Unknown
It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers.
~ Ghostface Killah
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
~ Alexander Pope
We all have a weakness for beauty.
~ Albert Camus
I am waylaid by beauty.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty draws more than oxen.
~ George Herbert
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
~ George Herbert
Enchantment is the purest form of sales
~ Guy Kawasaki
When he saw her, my brother stopped in his tracks and fell into her eyes so deeply you could hear the splash.
~ Peter Robinson
Novels and stories are not arguments; they set out not to convince, but to beguile.
~ Philip Pullman
To have enslaved America with this hocuspocus! To have captured the mind of the world's greatest nation without uttering a single word of truth! Oh, the pleasure we must be affording the most malevolent man on earth! Philip Roth (2004-09-06T16:00:00+00:00). The plot against America (Kindle Locations 4887-4888). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
~ Philip Roth