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Quotes About Captivation

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
when the person doesn't have to do anything and when they envision having it done to them or for them, or without any effort on their part, then they will want it even more. So, "Puts Music in Your Life
~ Unknown
When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again— the moment was just too beautiful to be lost.
~ David Levithan
She caught me looking at her. 'What?' she asked. 'Your lightness,' I said, hardly knowing what I was saying. 'It's disarming.
~ David Levithan
and the HE stands up. if frenchy's could bottle him up and sell him as porn, they'd probably own half of chicago within a year. he's what would happen after nine months if abercrombie fucked fitch. he's like a movie star, an olympic swimmer, and america's next top male model all at once. he's wearing a silver shirt and pink pants. everything about him sparkles. not my type at all. but...
~ David Levithan
Entertainment's chief job is to make you so riveted by it that you can't tear your eyes away, so the advertisers can advertise.
~ David Lipsky
Pace excites, and dialogue is pace. Falling into good dialogue on page one can put us in your pocket.
~ DBC Pierre
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
~ Roger Ebert
I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover.
~ Neal Adams
Al Pacino never looks like he's being filmed.
~ Will Poulter
To me, sex appeal means that when an actress is on the screen, she just engulfs the whole screen.
~ Urmila Matondkar
Como escritor, solo tienes un trabajo: hacer que el lector siga leyendo.
~ Unknown
She just played with it slowly, and then pointed a pair of grey eyes at me. I say a pair. I mean her pair. She didn't get a pair of someone else's out from a drawer and point them at me. She pointed her own pair of huge, pale, grey, pale, huge eyes at me. The sort of eyes that can make a grown man talk gibberish to himself. Get a grip, for Christ's sake.
~ Hugh Laurie
Luke caught Mina's chin in his left hand and turned her face toward him. 'Guess what, sweetheart?' 'What?' He grinned. 'I'm keeping you.
~ Unknown
Fuck. A woman's eyes shouldn't make a guy feel like she was stealing his soul with just a glance.
~ Unknown
Dangerous creatures, wallflowers. Approach them with the utmost caution. They sit quietly in corners, appearing abandoned and forlorn, when in truth they're sirens who lure men to their downfall. You won't even notice the moment she steals the heart right out of your body—and then it's hers for good. A wallflower never gives your heart back.
~ Lisa Kleypas
As Hardy Cates stood there looking at me, really seeing me for the first time, it felt like the whole world had been snatched up in a great unseen hand, its motion arrested.
~ Lisa Kleypas
He was charmed out of all reason as he watched her, this sandy, disheveled, storytelling mermaid, who seemed already to belong to him and yet wanted nothing to do with him.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You are an interesting woman, Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I drink in the sight, stand mesmerized, drenched in leather and paper and gold edges and ink and words. I'm carried away. Lost.
~ Unknown
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
~ Lloyd Jones
A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
~ Lloyd Jones
I'm wild again,Beguiled again,A simpering, whimpering child again—Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.
~ Lorenz Hart
When someone was gazing into your eyes like that, it was kind of hard to look away.
~ Jill Mansell