Fascinating Quotes - Page 29

• It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

  Alvin Langdon Coburn

  Photography, Dream, Art

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• Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

  Joe Elliott

  Manhattan, Beats, Bigs

  "How to travel like a rock star". "Celebrity travel" with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com.

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• I’ve always tried to find God in lots of different things, whether that’s been drugs, women, etc, etc… But all those things are tangible and they exist and you can see them and you can feel them. Music doesn’t exist, physically. Yet is commands ever facet of my personality and it has the power to command people how to feel on a physical level, uncontrollably. And I find that so fascinating.

  Matthew Healy

  People, Personality, Drug

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• The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Eye, Old Things

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.98, e-artnow

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• Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

  James A. Michener

  Pride, Artist, Names

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• They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Society, Faces

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.83, GENERAL PRESS

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• A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Poet, Really Great, Creatures

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Trying, Politician

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure.

  David Levering Lewis

  Eric, Renaissance, May

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• I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Wish, Going Away, Radicalism

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• Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Three, Evolution

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• A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

  Helen Rowland

  Maturity, Men, Halos

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.45, Litres

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• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  Ted Allen

  Wine, White, Cake

  "Ted Allen / 'Queer Eye' for a wine guy". Interview with W. Blake Gray, www.sfgate.com. October 27, 2006.

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• It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

  Edgar Cayce

  Garden, Color, Games

  Edgar Cayce (1986). “The Edgar Cayce Collection: Four Volumes in One”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Fashion, Smart, People

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

  Herb Caen

  Land, Cities, Two

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• It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

  Marlo Thomas

  Years, Two, Track

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• Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Done, Way

  William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Literature, Murder

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• Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

  Minnie Driver

  Baby, Looks, Obsessed

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• For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

  D. H. Lawrence

  Discovery, Self, Penetrate

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Long, People

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• How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Writing, Together

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• Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

  Robert Burchfield

  Art, Wells, Illuminating

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• It's fascinating how life works.

  Henry Louis Gates

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