Fascination Quotes

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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. — P.G. Wodehouse
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
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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
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… — Vladimir Nabokov
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him.… — Joseph Conrad
What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us. — Richard Bach
...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… — Victor Hugo
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… — Susanna Kaysen
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegroâ€™s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a… — Bill Bryson
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of… — Oscar Wilde
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an… — Isabel Allende
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have… — Charlotte Bronte
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions â€¦… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire… — Margaret Atwood
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes… — Paulo Coelho
Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail. — Stephen Jay Gould
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;… — E E Cummings
I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a… — Johnny Depp

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