Fascinating Quotes - Page 17

• Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mother, Love Is, Thinking

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• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  Radhanath Swami

  Oneness, Way, Spirit

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Father, Anger, Saws

  "Sachin Tendulkar interview: 'I favour England to win the Ashes" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Angel, Police

  Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson “The Harley-Davidson Reader”

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• You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

  Paul Gallico

  Hero, Discovery, Missing

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, Years, Band

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Artist

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.48, Courier Dover Publications

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• I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

  Betty MacDonald

  Christian, Witty, Breathing

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• Pain was a fascinating horror

  Aldous Huxley

  Pain, Horror

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.

  Josh Bazell

  People, Way, Hospitals

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• We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

  Spider Robinson

  Baby, Air, Hands

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• Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

  Jane Austen

  Names, Giving, Want

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Nice, Love You, Smell

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). “Novels”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

  Candace Bushnell

  Love, Girl, Men

  Twitter post from Dec 02, 2013

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• I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

  Muriel Barbery

  Foundation, Belief, Ability

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Ocean, Twilight

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word...the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Love You, Heart

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.339, Macmillan

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• The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

  Mark Doty

  Distance, Reality, Would Be

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• Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Play, Skulls, People

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I’m just trying to imagine you in flannel pink sock monkey pajamas. I’m sure you look stunning in pink. (Damien) Actually, with his skin tone he probably does look really good in it. I would definitely say he’s an autumn. (Kish) That’s summer, you dweeb. (Damien) I find it fascinating that you two women know that color palettes for clothes have a name. The fact you corrected him really scares me. (Sin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Summer, Autumn, Color

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• The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful information. "Augustus commissioned it." "Yes," Zia said. "Fascinating," I murmured. "Would you two like to be left alone with a history textbook?

  Rick Riordan

  Egypt, Two, Textbooks

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

  Rick Riordan

  White, Firsts, Carter

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

  Edna Ferber

  Sweet Love, Writing, Emo Love

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

  Don DeLillo

  Two, People, Television

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Art, Bored, Touching

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