Fascination Quotes - Page 5

• marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.

  Miss Read

  Doors, Hands, Funny Things

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• There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

  Mary Kingsley

  Ice, Fishing, Circles

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.75, Routledge

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• Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

  Peter Benchley

  Survival, Preparedness

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• My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

  Bill Gates

  Understanding, Disease, Facts

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• There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.

  Audrey Flack

  Powerful, Lying, Color

  Audrey Flack (1986). “Art & soul: notes on creating”, Dutton Adult

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• The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

  Dean Koontz

  Civilization, Barbarians, Destruction

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.101, Bantam

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• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Attitude, Philosophy, Long

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• I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Good Friend, Reputation, Very Good

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• I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

  Katherine Helmond

  Children, Hearing, Grew Up

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• Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.

  David Attenborough

  Nature, Passion, Responsibility

  "Lessons on environment as important as the three Rs, says Attenborough". Interview with Jessica Shepherd, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2011.

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• Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

  Jack Dorsey

  Cities, Right Now, Senses

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• Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

  Simon Callow

  Jesus, Men, Stories

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• I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

  Patrick Carney

  School, Track, Four

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• Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

  Hesiod

  Sweet, Talking, Barns

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.63, University of Michigan Press

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• The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

  Gilbert Highet

  Reading, Light, Important

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• Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

  Marilyn Manson

  Cake, White, Social Taboos

  Song: Everlasting Cocksucker

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• I have had young fascinations but never love.

  Rita Ora

  Young

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

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• If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Names

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other to the point of madness? Why did they loathe one another so vehemently, and why did sworn enemies feel such horror and fascination for one another? Why should furious hate become obsession, then intoxication and the very reason to live?Because love and hate were the two heads of the demon.

  Shan Sa

  Wall, Hate, Fate

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• An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Play, Desire

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Passion, Technology

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• Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

  William Cowper

  Names, Judgment, Surrender

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.282

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• There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.

  Annie Dillard

  Work, Skills, Vocabulary

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.150, Canongate Books

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• I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

  Edgar Wright

  Watches, Horror, Film

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

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• People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Vampire, Phenomenon

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