Words Fascinated Quotes

#1. My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special 'cry'. 'It's due to deformation of the crystal structure,' she said, forgetting that I was five, and could not understand her - and yet her words fascinated me, made me want to know more.

Oliver Sacks

#2. Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#3. The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.

Doris Day

#4. She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Dean Koontz

#5. The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Eric Schmidt

#6. 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 is the world of theatre.

Athol Fugard

#7. Interest in the arts among entrepreneurs, inventors, and eminent scientists obviously reflects their curiosity and aptitude. People who are open to new ways of looking at science and business also tend to be fascinated by the expression of ideas and emotions through images, sounds, and words.

Adam M. Grant

#8. I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

Hal Sparks

#9. We're fascinated by the words
but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

Ram Dass

#10. When you arrive in heaven, you will know that answering the call was worth it. Answering the call is always worth it.

Karen Wheaton

#11. I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

Pattiann Rogers

#12. I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction.

Jeffrey Dahmer

#13. Right now is the time for you to visualize and create your future. Make it as healthy and bright and joyful as you can. It's your life, and you're going to live it.

Louise Hay

#14. The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#15. Chocolate or a good man can instigate your heart's surrender, but full-bodied pleasure and overflowing love - opening until you are exposed fully to God as love's bliss - is the only way to live true to your deepest desire, with or without a trustable lover or a tasty dessert.

David Deida

#16. Wether you like it or not, life drags you forward.

Dee White

#17. The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Jacques Lacan

#18. What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

Harvey Keitel

#19. It is said that he bagan to write in French because he was fascinated by two words from the French that did not have an equivalent in his native German: 'verger,' orchard and 'paume,' palm of the hand.

Susanne Petermann

#20. I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#21. The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy and ardent desire in it; in the words of Hubert Juin, he 'loved his epoch to the point of detestation.'

(Introduction: "The Life And Career Of Jean Lorrain)

Francis Amery

#22. Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

Mariano Rivera

#23. I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.

Don DeLillo

#24. I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.

Taylor Swift

#25. It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Sarah Addison Allen

#26. If I was going to lie to you, I'd already be elected.

Gatewood Galbraith

#27. Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.

Agyness Deyn

#28. People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World

Paulo Coelho

#29. My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

Jean Fritz