Quotes About Captivation

If I could but entice you with sentences and tongue tie you with words.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

Führer Kontakt it was called, an intense magnetic hold that made the person with him believe, just for that moment, that he or she was the only one in the room. A hypnotic force that dazzled, empowered, and enslaved.

I was in awe of him. I didn't speak; I listened.

I was in awe of him. I didn't speak; I listened. He was flawless.

To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.

But she saw that his eyes, which were sand-colored like his face, and sandy-lashed, had found another occupation. They were fixed on Conchita Closson, who sat opposite to him; they rested on her unblinkingly, immovably, as if she had been a natural object, a landscape or a cathedral, that one had traveled far to see, and had the right to look at as long as one chose. He's drinking her up like blotting paper. I thought they were better brought up over in England!

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauty draws us with a single hair.

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

It's like watching a car accident, that reality TV.

I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have.

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

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.

My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

I would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

La curiosité l'avait désormais enchaîné.

Veintisiete años con más mundo que el que descubrió Colón, color sonrosado, ojos de más preguntas y respuestas que el catecismo, nariz de escribano por lo picaresca, labios retozones, y una tabla de pecho como para asirse de ella un náufrago, tal era en compendio la muchacha.