Top 100 Fascinates Quotes
#1. Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. You don't seem to need me, and if you don't need me, it is much more gratifying that you want me.
Elisa Marie Hopkins
#2. You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
Veronica Roth
#3. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.
Oscar Wilde
#5. He's a walking, breathing erogenous zone who fascinates me and infuriates me in equal measures.
Leisa Rayven
#6. I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome
#7. I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.
Ethel Merman
#8. Evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it ...
John Geddes
#9. The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.
Irina Lazareanu
#10. people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me. Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
#11. The history of a place fascinates me through the echoes and remains you learn alot
D.B. Shultz
#12. You never see Beyonce stumbling out of a club drunk and on drugs without underwear on - nor do you see Justin Timberlake pashing 5 chicks in a club. You never hear them slagging anyone in the media ... They are composed and somewhat mysterious and that fascinates me!
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#13. Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#14. Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.
Georges Bernanos
#15. The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.
Matt Stone
#16. The constant education is what keeps me interested. That's what absolutely fascinates me about this job. This week, I'm playing a faerie. Last year, I played a soldier. What am I going to be playing in six months? It's amazing! It's a wonderful job.
Robert Kazinsky
#17. The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
Ann Rule
#18. This phenomenon, where the losers of a revolution try to demonstrate their support for, and approval of, the changes that have destroyed them, always fascinates me.
Julian Fellowes
#19. I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.
Moby
#20. In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.
Meryl Streep
#21. Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.
Roman Coppola
#22. To be honest, your crap fascinates me. Having you here is like visiting a foreign land.
Samanthe Beck
#23. The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.
PJ Harvey
#24. Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.
Zeena Schreck, Cuir Underground: Sado-Magic for Satan Interview, 1998
Zeena Schreck
#25. What fascinates me is not so much humanity's engulfment in darkness, but what kind of culture we will construct from the rubble of this one.
Carolyn Baker
#26. Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Kate Atkinson
#27. Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?
Steven Rodney McQueen
#28. I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more
get us really hunkering down, trying to tease out the whole of the figure in the carpet.
Samuel R. Delany
#29. I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.
Elaine Stritch
#30. Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
Amanda Palmer
#31. I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.
Dana Spiotta
#33. Life Life Life Life; it fascinates me, it intoxicates me, it upsets me and it surprises me. However, I love Life because I know it has a meaning in whatever consequences it puts us in. At the end of the day Life is the most beautiful teacher and I want to Romance her!
Dr. S.U.A.H Syed
#34. Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
Annie Proulx
#35. Football is a game that fascinates people around the World like nothing else.
Berti Vogts
#36. 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
#37. Then you should be as willing. I know how poison fascinates you. Surely dying from it will fascinate you, too." Leaning closer, I hiss, "It is a pity you cannot take notes.
Maryrose Wood
#38. The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.
Gerhard Richter
#39. You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
Agnes Bruckner
#40. As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
Ian McEwan
#41. I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.
Stephenie Meyer
#42. I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.
Ann Packer
#43. The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.
Donna Tartt
#44. I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.
Jamie Bell
#45. Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship.
Rob Sheffield
#46. It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
Bell Hooks
#47. 'You're there, but the books draw you in to whole other worlds. I mean, I know you study more serious things than the silly stories I read, but when you're there, you can be anywhere. It fascinates me.'
Caethes Faron
#48. The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.
Joan Rivers
#49. There is nothing that fascinates us more, little that agitates the body more completely. Information warns us of danger, prepares us for action, helps us survive. And it enables us to perform that most magical of all tricks - predicting the future.
John Coates
#50. What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
Moby
#51. Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.
Oscar Wilde
#52. One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.
Chris Roberson
#53. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome
#54. I think social media really is a great tool. It fascinates me when I tweet something and right away you get a response almost immediately.
Mario Andretti
#55. I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
Sergio Leone
#56. 'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
Brian Koppelman
#57. Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.
John Larroquette
#58. More than the aspirations of an innocuous bird inside a cage, its the story of the cage that fascinates.
Ashutosh Gupta
#59. But maybe I could be the wacky, unpredictable girl; the kind who always fascinates more conservative men in the movies.
E. Lockhart
#60. I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up many mornings, and it almost wouldn't surprise me if I woke up from it and it was all a dream.
Dean Koontz
#61. I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
#62. You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.
Jacquelyn Frank
#63. The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.
Marcel Dzama
#64. One thing about change hasn't changed: it still fascinates some people, frightens others, and provides a good living for a prophetic minority.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#65. I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.
Eddie Murphy
#66. Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#67. The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#68. Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.
Keith Richards
#69. 'Sanctus' deals with creation myths in every culture. It fascinates me that all cultures, evolving independently, have similar models of mankind's origins, of a Greater Being, of the flood, and so on. It's amazing how they crop up time and time again.
Simon Toyne
#70. This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur ...
David Hurn
#71. In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.
Susan Wiggs
#72. I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me to no end, because buildings back in Portland are made of grass and mud.
Fanny Merkin
#73. Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me. Duke- Lament
Maggie Stiefvater
#74. [Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year ... what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.
Winston Churchill
#75. We all think that we are uniquely complex, that no one can see what we are thinking - yet we also believe that we have the rare ability to read others. This fascinates me at the moment.
Harlan Coben
#76. At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
Hugh Jackman
#77. Go be whomever you want to be, then. Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#78. I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.
Neil Gaiman
#79. The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
Bruno Bauer
#80. Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we will strive to preserve.
Mattias Klum
#81. My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
Pat Barker
#82. History warns us. Legend fascinates us. Imagination drives us. Authors take these and create worlds that entertain, provoke and warn. Ultimately, even fiction is about the Story we all find ourselves in. And history makes sure no one forgets.
Darrick Dean
#83. Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.
Orson Welles
#84. I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
Ellie Goulding
#85. The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.
Diablo Cody
#86. I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.
Phil Keoghan
#87. It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.
Leni Zumas
#88. Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great. Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.
Beau Mirchoff
#89. It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.
James Rosenquist
#90. Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you.
Paul O'Brien
#91. What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.
Dennis R. Miller
#92. School is temporary. Education is not. If you want to prosper in life: find something that fascinates you and jump all over it. Don't wait for someone to teach you; your enthusiasm will attract teachers to you. Don't worry about diplomas or degrees; just get so good that no one can ignore you.
James Marcus Bach
#93. A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.
Helen Rowland
#94. I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.
Susie Orbach
#95. My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.
Gia Coppola
#96. I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
Alan Rickman
#97. L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
Caroline Leavitt
#98. There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
Elizabeth Peyton
#99. Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it only in the faintest echoes; its sleep is almost dreamless. Its sensations seem to come out of books read in childhood.
Isabella Bird
#100. Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
