Fascination Quotes - Page 13

• I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Should Have, Quality, Shapes

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

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• Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

  Isabel Allende

  Heroism, Occupation, Ends

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• There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Moving, Passion

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.212, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Bunk, Celebration

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.104, Random House

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• Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Heart, People

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.45, e-artnow

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• My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

  Jello Biafra

  Reality, Parent, Cartoon

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• I've always had a fascination with hugging (I'm not really particular about who or what it is I'm embracing as long as there's a “squish” factor).

  Misha Collins

  Long, Hug, Particular

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• Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world; when represented in a picture, the object conveys this mystery all the more powerfully, the less of a 'function' the picture has. Hence, for instance, the growing fascination of many beautiful old portraits.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Art, Portraits

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Issues

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Family, Powerful, Impact

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• I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

  Avicii

  Play, Able, Enough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

  Ishmael Reed

  Careers, Perfect, Black

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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• For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

  Chris Wedge

  Fantasy, Immersion, Animation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Dragons, Names

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

  Morena Baccarin

  Earth, Knows

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

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• There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.

  Juno Temple

  Different, Roles, Brilliant

  "Sundance Q&A: Juno Temple Is Blowing Up". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2013.

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• I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

  Paul Bettany

  Doe, Paper, Royal

  "Bowing Down To Paul Bettany". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 24, 2009.

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• We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.

  E. O. Wilson

  Survival, Monsters, Stories

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• We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.

  Cheri Huber

  Attitude, Intelligent, Choices

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• I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

  Richard Rohr

  Men, Differences, Style

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

  Max Brooks

  Summer, Thinking, Choices

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

  Nellie Melba

  Beautiful, Song, Art

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• An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Irresistible, Ahead Of Time

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• the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

  Mary Stewart

  Art, Powerful, Past

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• We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.

  Barbara Sher

  Emotional, Support, Delight

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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