Fascination Quotes

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Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near… — Mary McCarthy
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan… — Herbert Hoover
People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything. — Jonathan Haidt
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner. — Mavis Gallant
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate… — Susan Sontag
If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination. — Yoshida Kenko
To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years. — Donald Cram
I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination. — Jane Smiley
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating… — Helen Frankenthaler
I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own… — Glenn Hughes
When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every… — Diana Vreeland
Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream… — Barry Sonnenfeld
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world… — Peter Agre
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and… — Pierre Loti
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it… — Jennifer Haigh
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations,… — Adam Zagajewski
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve… — Niklaus Wirth
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… — Athol Fugard
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

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