Fascinating Quotes

• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Success, Knowledge, Funny Thanksgiving

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

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• My father always used to say to me, it doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch.

  Nicolas Cage

  Dad, Father, Watches

  "Nicolas Cage is No Ordinary ‘Joe’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 10, 2014.

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• I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

  Johnny Marr

  People, Seems

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• Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

  John F. Carlson

  Clouds, Elements, Movement

  John F. Carlson (1973). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that...I have no intention of making fun of re-enactors. I think it's more just a celebration of their passion and enthusiasm, which is so infectious and maybe at times a little misguided.

  Ed Helms

  Fun, War, Passion

  Source: movies.about.com

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• I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

  Karen Allen

  Interesting, Creative, Needs

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• What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Creativity, Creative

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• Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Memories, Years, Enormous

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

  Lucinda Riley

  Character, Evil, Magic

  Lucinda Riley (2012). “The Girl on the Cliff: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.

  Johnny Depp

  Black, Holes, Black Hole

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.

  Heidi Julavits

  Successful, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

  Michael Tippett

  Changed, Poetry Is, Extras

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• Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

  Stuart Sutherland

  Reading, Doe, Impossible

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• There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

  Ned Rorem

  People

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

  Edgar Degas

  Light, Source, Shows

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• There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

  Mark Hamill

  Artist, Draws

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 29, 2011.

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• Medicine is so fascinating.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Medicine

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• Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance. Each has mirrored the latest tastes in fashion technology, design and art.

  Judith Miller

  Fashion, Art, Technology

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• Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Breathing, Watches

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Einstein Intersection”, p.138, Wesleyan University Press

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• One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.

  John Collison

  Example, Selling, Apps

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• Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Running, People, President

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• Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Exercise, Science

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• The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Adventure, Ends, Higher

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• One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, People, World

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• Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

  Kate Bush

  Unique, Thinking, Snowflake

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