Fascination Quotes - Page 6

In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.

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.

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the words of them. If I was to do a more-precise analysis of the situation, I have to admit that I was more entertained by the bad films than the good ones. Because when something is beautiful, it is there; it is finished; it is done. It doesn't have to be touched or be worked upon.

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fascination with the truth. I'm not looking down my nose at it.

The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal ahead.

I've always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East Brighton riding in your cart, and the next moment you are in a completely different world.

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.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

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

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

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.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to have the market cornered. She is the bestselling author in this genre. We had actually optioned another one of her Amish books, The Redemption of Sarah Cain. We retitled it Saving Sarah Cain and it did extremely well for Lifetime so we pursued more of her novels.

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

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.

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.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.