Fascination Quotes - Page 4

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

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

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

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

It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model. I don't know how to explain it, but it would be nice to try. Why, why this fascination?

In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a piece of furniture in your home. But jewelry is worn by a person, so there is a fascination with the history of a piece.

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

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.

I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.

It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.

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.