Fascination Quotes - page 5

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list. (Jennifer Weiner)
I think it's true to say that everybody has a fascination with predators. It's something that's hardwired into us. View quote
Jeremy Wade
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. View quote
Elizabeth Kostova
Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination, and our infinite fascination with what is hidden and mysterious. View quote
Esther Perel
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing. View quote
Christina Hendricks
The present molders of the code seemed to have a clear knowledge of just how difficult to make something, to add to its fascination, without making it impossible. View quote
Lester del Rey
Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma. View quote
Lisa Unger
The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid. View quote
Billy Burke
I got a fascination with food. View quote
Heather Mills
There is in the rules or definitions (sutras) of Panini a remarkably subtle and penetrating account of Sanskrit grammar. The construction of sentences, compound nouns, and the like is explained through ordered rules operating on underlying structures in a manner strikingly similar in part to modes of modern theory. As might be imagined, this perceptive Indian grammatical work held great fascination for 20th-century theoretical linguists. A study of Indian logic in relation to Paninian grammar alongside AristotleAristotelian]] and Western logic in relation to Greek grammar and its successors could bring illuminating insights. (Pāṇini)
It is another aphorism that no ones knows everything about anything. That need not dull the pleasure and fascination of the fact that a great deal is known about some things. View quote
George Gaylord Simpson
I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job. View quote
Charlotte Ross
The horrors of [Vivisection] have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded phenomena, stored away by the physiological inquisitor on dusty shelves, are mostly of as little present use to man as the knowledge of a new comet or of a tungstate of zirconium: perhaps to be confuted the next year, perhaps to remain as fixed truth of immediate value, - contemptibly small compared with the price paid for it in agony and torture. View quote
Henry Jacob Bigelow
I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist. View quote
Ariel Garten
There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures. View quote
Bo Derek
The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject. View quote
Carly Rae Jepsen
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. View quote
Diane von Furstenberg
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. View quote
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is. View quote
Elisha Cuthbert
Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use 'data sonification' to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems. (Honor Harger)
The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film. View quote
Imtiaz Ali
I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it. View quote
Jason Reitman
I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. View quote
Joshua Lederberg
I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child. View quote
Katherine Helmond