Fascination Quotes - Page 5

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.

In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

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

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.

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

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.

I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

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.

I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like that a lot.

Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

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

The US remains an object of fascination for me, and the subject of much study, but while many of my friends etc. are American and I have no plans at present to move elsewhere, I consider myself a permanent outsider.

What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

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.

At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent of them -- in reincarnation are dangerous. They help to break down the standards of reason.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.

God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

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.

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.