Quotes About Captivation

All I want out of a television show is that I be intrigued and entertained.

Chez Panisse is a sensory temple - you might have to be made of stone not to fall for it.

Balthasar says anything beautiful first arrests you—you're stopped in your tracks by it. Then, Balthasar says, the beautiful elects you. You've been chosen. Not everyone who hears Dylan becomes a fan, but I got elected. Finally, he says, the beautiful always sends you. You're sent on a mission.

I believe you could bewitch anyone—if you set yourself to do it. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.

His eyes looked directly at her, and she felt something jump inside. The eyes, the voice, the face, the silver hair, the easy way he moved his body, old ways, disturbing ways, ways that draw you in. Ways that whisper to you in the final moment before sleep comes, when the barriers have fallen.

The closer she looked at those windows, the lovelier and more irresistible the house became.

Her words flew like butterflies through the vibrant air of the hall; and the company was quiet, as if watching them.

How to tell a story—how to make it go on and on to fill the time—how to get interested in it yourself so it would be interesting to your listeners, or listener—all that came back to me

Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis.

They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.

Evie's eyes widened. "More interesting than dope and sorcery?

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

Il mondo, magari, non l'aveva visto mai. Ma erano ventisette anni che il mondo passava su quella nave: ed erano ventisette anni che lui, su quella nave, lo spiava. E gli rubava l'anima.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

He was a dark and stormy knight. A latter-day rake with eyes the color of emeralds worth a queen's ransom. His smile promised voyages to the moon. And heaven alone knew how many females lay littered in his wake. To a rousing burst of Rachmaninoff, he swept into my London flat one January evening and, with the hauteur of his greeting, captured my virgin heart forever and a day. 'Miss Ellie Simons? My car awaits. Shall we splurge on dinner or parking tickets?

She really had cast a spell on him.

Reed had never seen Allie so mesmerized, and for good reason.

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

Oliver Wendell Holmes said Lippmann's pieces were like flypaper: "If I touch it, I am stuck till I finish it.

extinguish their light and beauty with his gaze. This