Fascination Quotes - Page 5

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

  Patrick Carney

  School, Track, Four

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• Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you!

  Joseph Simmons

  Positivity, Alive, Want

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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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• 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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• There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

  Steve Ballmer

  Technology, Google, Share

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• Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

  Don DeLillo

  Fame, Secrecy, Ends

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound to the complete truth. There is always a danger lest the fascination of a new discovery should lead us too far. Men of science, being human, are apt, like lovers, to exaggerate the perfections and be a little blind to the faults of the object of their choice.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Truth, Struggle, Science

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• The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination

  Frederick William Faber

  Jesus, Blessed, Angel

  Frederick William Faber (1855). “The blessed sacrament: or, The works and ways of God”, p.510

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Drinking, Simple

  Quoted in Personalia, the Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1970).

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• And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hate, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, number 168, 1982.

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• War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dream, Real, War

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• As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Class, Together, Modern Life

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• These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.

  Archilochus

  Eye, Envy, Matter

  Archilochus, Sappho, Alcman, Guy Davenport (1980). “Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: three lyric poets of the late Greek Bronze Age”, Univ of California Pr

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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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• 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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• I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Looks, Looking Good, Slow Down

  1990 In the NewYork Times, 7 Jan.

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• Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spring, Character, Autumn

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• I went brunette for a film called Fascination and I loved it.

  Alice Evans

  Film, Brunette

  "Bright Lights, Big Hair". Glamour Magazine column, March 2007.

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• I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

  Luisa Valenzuela

  New Beginnings, Stories, Short Story

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• Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

  Peter Benchley

  Survival, Preparedness

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