Fascinating Quotes - Page 15

• You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

  Roger Ebert

  Eye, Cutting, Long

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  People, Want, Experimental Science

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mean, Cells, Hands

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Interesting, Watches

  "Everyone is entertained to death". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2005.

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• Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.

  Tim Ferriss

  Years, Data, People

  "Tim Ferriss Wants to Hack Your Body". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

  Mike Figgis

  Humorous, World, Tragic

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• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, People, Havens

  "Interview with California Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

  Renee Fleming

  Voice, Style, Singing

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• Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Latin, Color, America

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• If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mean, Thinking, Dna

  "After the Beer Summit". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2010.

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• It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

  Jane Goodall

  Warfare, Behavior, Form

  Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman (1999). “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It's interesting to see the male perspective.

  Ellie Goulding

  Interesting, Perspective, Males

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

  Amy Grant

  Children, People, My Children

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• Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

  John Grisham

  White, Inmates, Prison

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• The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Vocabulary, Important, Transition

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• And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Guy, Entertaining

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• Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, People, Trying

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• Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Trying, Position

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• Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cheer, Thinking, Discovery

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Thinking, Cities

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• I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.

  Alison Jackson

  Queens, Too Much, Fabulous

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• 'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.

  Penn Jillette

  Psycho, Happens

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody prefers to see a nut - they're more fascinating.

  Penn Jillette

  Nuts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.

  Kesha

  Lifestyle, Fantastic, Commit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

  Marian Keyes

  Thinking, Denial, Way

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