Fascination Quotes - Page 8

• Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.

  Jane Smiley

  Mother, Horse, Facts

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jun 30, 2010

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• If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Saint, Thirty

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• If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would have to tolerate me otherwise. Marry me because I need someone who will help me to laugh at myself. Because someone has to teach me how to whistle. Marry me, Lillian… because I have the most irresistible fascination for your ears.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Laughing, Honor, Needs

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• Same old boring boring story America can’t stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a little, right? But why do you think all those runaways are on the streets tearing up their veins with junk and selling themselves so they can sleep in the gutter? What do you think the alternative was at home?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Book, Sleep, Home

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• This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

  Michael Crichton

  Disease, Computer, Wells

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Michael Crichton's Lecture, 2003.

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• The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loss, Winning, Night

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.16, Macmillan

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• No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dragons, Trying, Wasting Time

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

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• Even before he left the room, — and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her. And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Ideas, Use, Rooms

  "North and South".

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• I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Emptiness, Longing

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• I've always had a real fascination with Alice in Wonderland and really related to it in some way. And since I was little, people always nicknamed me Alice, even total strangers. I do know I'm always in Wonderland. And I'm definitely just as curious. I don't mind being amongst the mad people, I enjoy it.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Real, People, Mad

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

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• Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Fruedian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.

  Edward Herrmann

  Dark, Flirting, Shadow

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• Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.

  Roy Orbison

  Spiritual, Wife, Growing

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• There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.

  Susan Howe

  Skins, Archives, Paper

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• I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

  Blake Michael

  Mixing

  "Interview With Disney Channel's Blake Michael!". Interview with Lillian Chen, www.seventeen.com. December 20, 2012.

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• When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Growing Up, House, Magic

  Josef Helfenstein, Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober (1991). “Parkett”

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• In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.

  Joseph Conrad

  Regret, Hate, Heart

  Joseph Conrad (1999). “Heart of Darkness - Second Edition”, p.71, Broadview Press

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• I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Years, Spills

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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• It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Moving, Home

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

  Mavis Gallant

  Interesting, Life Is, Depends

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• Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Thinking, Encounters

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.23, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Anticipation, Mindset, Interest

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• I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

  Jane Smiley

  Romance, Categories, Not Friends

  Jane Smiley (2011). “Ordinary Love and Good Will”, p.164, Anchor

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• I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat.

  Glenn Hughes

  Insanity, Soul, Bending

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• When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Littles, Tiny

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• Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Dream, Growing Up, Adults

  "How Would Aliens Fare Against Dinosaurs? Barry Sonnenfeld Aims To Find Out" by Mike Fleming Jr., deadline.com. May 10, 2011.

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