Fascinated Quotes - Page 17

• I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Years, Luxury

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• It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Black And White, Computer, White

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• I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.

  Traudl Junge

  Boss, Pleasant

  "In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days" by Armin D. Lehmann and Tim Carroll, (p. 91), 2005.

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• Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!

  James MacGregor Burns

  Dog, Hot, Stories

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• When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

  Boris Becker

  Children, Rooms, Kind

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• I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

  John Banville

  Scary, Physics, Cosmology

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• Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

  Alan Ball

  Theme

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• All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

  Neil Armstrong

  Adventure, Wrinkles, Generations

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• Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hands, People, Creative

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• Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

  Jim Rohn

  Happiness, Frustration, Frustrated

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 15, 2015

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• Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Russia, Ideas

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• When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

  Margaret Mead

  Heart, Men, Artist

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

  Tori Amos

  Daughter, Mother, Song

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• Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

  Allan Gurganus

  Writing, Mean, Events

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• I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

  James Cameron

  Father, Technology, Engineering

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Pirates have always fascinated me.

  Tanith Lee

  Pirate

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• I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Song, Writing, Dark

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• I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

  Helen Dunmore

  Russia, Age, Culture

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• I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.'

  Oliver Sacks

  Weed, Atheist, Marijuana

  "Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 6, 2012.

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• The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Truth, Math

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• I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.

  Ben Okri

  Life, Running, Reality

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• I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

  Lara Pulver

  Romantic, Strong, Actors

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

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• This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.

  Scott McNealy

  Running, Kids, Giving

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• As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

  Athol Fugard

  People, Theatre, Fascination

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