Fascination Quotes - Page 12

• A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

  James Stockdale

  Education, Ideas, Curiosity

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

  Michael Crichton

  Disease, Computer, Wells

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Michael Crichton's Lecture, 2003.

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• Same old boring boring story America can’t stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a little, right? But why do you think all those runaways are on the streets tearing up their veins with junk and selling themselves so they can sleep in the gutter? What do you think the alternative was at home?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Book, Sleep, Home

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• If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would have to tolerate me otherwise. Marry me because I need someone who will help me to laugh at myself. Because someone has to teach me how to whistle. Marry me, Lillian… because I have the most irresistible fascination for your ears.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Laughing, Honor, Needs

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• What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

  Richard Bach

  Watches, Stage, Dearest Friend

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• There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Teacher, School, Squares

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• She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Laughter, Moving

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• Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

  Jose Saramago

  Facts, Morbid, Pleasure

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• I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

  Theo Rossi

  Cowboy, Intriguing, Modern

  "Theo Rossi Talks Sons of Anarchy: Brick Season 4" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 04, 2011.

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• In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Book, Character

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• I got a fascination with food.

  Heather Mills

  "From Lady Mucca ... to Mrs Whippy". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.

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• Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Knights, Secret

  "Umberto Eco in quotes - 10 of the best". Paris Review, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

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• I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Character, Play, Roles

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• I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

  Justin Cronin

  Dark, Numbers, Growing

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• I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

  Nicolas Cage

  Animal, Whales, Bird

  "Nicolas Cage Only Eats Animals With 'Dignified' Manner in Sex" by celebrity-mania.com, May 19, 2010.

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• I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

  John Bolton

  Spring, Thinking, Israel

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• ...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

  Victor Hugo

  Risk, World, Limits

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Opposites, Causes, Looks

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.77, Vintage

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• If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Saint, Thirty

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• Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.

  Jane Smiley

  Mother, Horse, Facts

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jun 30, 2010

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• Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Jesus, Mean

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.204, Discovery House

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• I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

  Rob Zombie

  Witch, Wells, Knows

  "Rob Zombie on Going for Broke With ‘Lords of Salem’ and Why Making a Third ‘Halloween’ Would Be 'Masochistic'" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being

  e. e. cummings

  Movement, Poet, Form

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• Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Voice, Interesting

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Suicide, Men, Attention

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