Fascinating Quotes

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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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly… — James A. Michener
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. — Oscar Wilde
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. — Oscar Wilde
One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says. — Gore Vidal
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… — David Levering Lewis
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… — E L Doctorow
Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences. — Stephen Jay Gould
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… — Helen Rowland
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… — Ted Allen
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… — Edgar Cayce
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… — Robertson Davies
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… — Herb Caen
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… — Marlo Thomas
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… — William Saroyan
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. — Donna Tartt
The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human… — Rachelle Lefevre
The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd. — Natalie Merchant
This digital world is completely fascinating to me. — Graham Nash
Medicine is so fascinating. — Ellen Pompeo

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