Fascination Quotes · Page 5

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

— Fredric Jameson

We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature

— Rudolf Spielmann

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

— Edgar Ramirez

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.

— Ernst Haas

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

— Jello Biafra

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“mysterium tremendum et fascinans, the fear and the fascination. The great and terrible awe.”

— John Green

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something…

— Carl Hiaasen

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's…

— Jack Dorsey

It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model.…

— Vito Acconci

In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a…

— Simon de Pury

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it…

— Hugh Jackman

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's…

— Lucian Freud

“It isn't as simple as a fascination of the flesh. It's everything about her that I love: her intelligence, her ambition, her…

— Kristen Zimmer

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about…

— Simon Callow

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes…

— Reggie Watts

Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or…

— Mary Roach

I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought…

— Glenn Hughes

When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle,…

— Louise Bourgeois

I've always had a real fascination with Alice in Wonderland and really related to it in some way. And since I was…

— Evan Rachel Wood

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I…

— Jerome Lawrence

I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an…

— Jeffrey Deitch

It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I…

— Marc Anthony

[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

— Thomas Heatherwick

An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

— Chiaki Kuriyama

Britain's fascination with its changing language is renowned.

— Susie Dent

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

— Sigmund Freud

Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

— Erving Polster

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

“mysterium tremendum et fascinans-- that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.”

— John Green

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

— Nicolas Cage

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

— Ross Kemp

In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight

— Hugh Massingberd

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

— Bo Derek

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

— Jean Genet

Cristiano is direct and forceful, and has this fascination with goals.

— Tite

I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.

— Ed Droste