Top 100 Fascination For Quotes
#1. The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.
Jim Lovell
#2. I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.
Daniela Ruah
#3. The greatest tragedy in life is our inability to experience and express fascination for the people and events we love while in their presence.
Darrell Calkins
#4. The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
Luke Evans
#5. Some of us will admit to a simple fascination with the inner world for its own sake, a fascination with no further goal than the thrill of discovery, the pleasure of engaging the mysterious, dark ground of our own nature.
Sandra Lee Dennis
#6. My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
Ben Van Berkel
#7. It's the Hitler within us that's our problem," said the media expert Peter Boenisch. "Germans are pigheaded. The fascination of Hitler is a reaction to the complexity of the world, so complicated and so insoluble for the lower strata. There is no outlet for frustration.
Peter Wyden
#8. Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.
Shawn Amos
#9. After that, she went about her task with the fascination only women can have for wounds and pus
John Wiltshire
#10. For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.
Rachel Holmes
#11. 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 health problems.
Peter Agre
#12. Without noticing, I slip into a light yet lingering malaise. Not a depression, more like a fascination for melancholia, which I turn in my hand as if it were a small planet, streaked in shadow, impossibly blue.
Patti Smith
#13. I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#14. It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
Antony Beevor
#15. It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.
Marc Anthony
#16. An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.
Lawrence R. Klein
#17. In order to establish a real teacher-student relationship it is necessary for us to give up all our preconceptions regarding that relationship and the condition of opening and surrender. Surrender means opening oneself completely, trying to get beyond fascination and expectation.
Chogyam Trungpa
#18. 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 known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me ...
Charlotte Bronte
#19. All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
Richard H. Davis
#20. In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
Terry Pratchett
#21. You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.
Stephen King
#22. I've not worn a dress since about 1985. It always amazes me how there is still a fascination for it in England. The rest of the world doesn't seem to care. I'm not sure whether they don't remember or whether they've just moved on from it. I was brought up in the glam era.
Martin Gore
#23. Swanstein seriously had tears coming down his face! I watched in amazement. Seeing girls cry makes me very uncomfortable, but a fellow male in tears, in public, was pure fascination. I wanted to get a front-row seat and put on some 3-D glasses for the show.
Flynn Meaney
#24. When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.
Michael Morpurgo
#25. Old books exert a strange fascination for me
their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.
Lauren Willig
#26. They lived for different futures, but they were each other's unrecognized halves, and what fascination between them did come to pass was lit up, beyond question, with grace.
Thomas Pynchon
#27. I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#28. She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thought
Richard Bach
#29. The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.
Rosita Forbes
#30. We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
Naomi Wolf
#31. I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
Edgar Wright
#32. We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
Barbara Sher
#33. These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.
Archilochus
#34. I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
Sally Mann
#35. I went brunette for a film called Fascination and I loved it.
Alice Evans
#36. Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of salt air, it affects them deeply and has inspired many of their lovliest songs. There is one that tells of this love, if you want to hear it.
Christopher Paolini
#37. I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.
Christopher Young
#38. And for almost four hours they sat at the opposite ends of the couch, the portable phonograph on the coffee table before them, their faces lit with silent and sorrowful fascination, listening as the music of a dead world filled the summer night.
Stephen King
#39. At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.
J. D. McClatchy
#40. Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.
David Attenborough
#41. As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.
Charley Pride
#42. Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.
Jerome Lawrence
#43. Yes, the simple truth about the greatest businesspeople I have known is that they have a genuine fascination for the truly astonishing impact little things done exactly right can have on the world.
Anonymous
#44. I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
Joshua Lederberg
#45. The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
James Weldon Johnson
#46. I've always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East Brighton riding in your cart, and the next moment you are in a completely different world.
Robert Dessaix
#47. I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.
Gemma Files
#48. It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.
Annalee Newitz
#49. I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
Laura Wade
#50. One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself ... instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.
Charlotte Sophia Kasl
#51. My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
Paddy Considine
#52. I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#53. The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.
Flora Thompson
#54. An artist ... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
Eric Maisel
#55. At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.
Thomas Heatherwick
#56. As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
Dylan Moran
#57. The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.
Bob Newhart
#58. I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me.
Glen Duncan
#59. The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#60. We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
Alan Watts
#61. Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?
Stephen Jay Gould
#62. I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.
Luisa Valenzuela
#63. I have a fascination for extra-judicial societies and underground cultures, and in situations where justice can only be found outside the law, and how these societies have evolved over the centuries.
Ann Nocenti
#64. The mind believes what it sees and does what it believes; that is the
secret of fascination. And in his book, St Augustine does not doubt the
reality of this fascination for one moment.
Antonin Artaud
#65. I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!
Tippi Hedren
#66. I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.
Darin Strauss
#67. The US remains an object of fascination for me, and the subject of much study, but while many of my friends etc. are American and I have no plans at present to move elsewhere, I consider myself a permanent outsider.
Luc Sante
#68. That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
Randy West
#69. There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.
Annie Dillard
#71. In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
H.P. Lovecraft
#72. If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction anymore. And I share that fascination with the truth. I'm not looking down my nose at it.
Ron Currie Jr.
#73. 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 and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
Paulo Coelho
#74. As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.
Louis Auchincloss
#75. My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.
Bill Gates
#76. A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.
Joseph Wiseman
#77. My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.
Vasily Smyslov
#78. I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.
Shakira
#79. There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.
Thomas Foran
#80. When I was younger, before I was born, I lost my twin, so I think I've always had a fascination for telepathy or the way that twins act and react with each other.
Sophie Turner
#81. Larry: i don't really get this fascination that people have with the ocean
Cheryl: no?
Larry: i dunno. i mean i stare at it for ten minutes and i go okay i get it
Cheryl: don't you feel calmer?
Larry: i feel aggravated that i am missing what other people are getting.
Larry David
#82. 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 everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.
Vladimir Nabokov
#83. Whatever fascination Lymond held for her mother, it had no power at five in the morning.
Dorothy Dunnett
#84. Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains?
Jay Woodman
#85. The more divorced from practical reality any given theory is, the greater its fascination for those who are also divorced from reality.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#86. Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination ... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.
Herbert Wind
#87. As for me, I preferred to let people believe what they wanted to believe. It made life far more interesting. But my fascination with human behavior was one I kept to myself,
Laurelin Paige
#88. I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.
Uta Barth
#89. The village of Wall watched the battle of wills with fascination, wondering what the outcome would be, for no one crossed Bridget Forester: she had a tongue that could, the villagers said, blister the paint from a barn door and tear the bark from an oak.
Neil Gaiman
#90. Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.
Neil Peart
#91. The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.
Tim Winton
#92. He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.
Abbi Glines
#93. The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and "personal fulfillment." America's compulsion for "maximum personhood" is evidenced everywhere.
Billy Graham
#94. Her face was a synthesis of perfect symmetry and unusual proportion; he could have gazed at it for hours, trying to locate the source of its fascination.
J.K. Rowling
#95. 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 Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat.
Glenn Hughes
#96. There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
Bo Derek
#97. Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.
Barbara Hutton
#98. Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.
Marilyn Manson
#99. In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer ... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.
Deborah Turbeville
#100. I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.
David Bowie
