Fascination Quotes

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde

War, Long, Popular

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old, Getting, Older

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Rather, Boredom, Both

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. Lovecraft

Black, Process, Abyss

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Christian Dior

Women, After, Between

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

Art, Death, Character

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

True, Point, 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

True, Coming, Humans

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Whole, Guess, Weight

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
Susan Orlean

Bad, Learned, Training

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

End, Wrong, Gun

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
Jean Genet

Speak, Felt, Audience

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.
Jason Reitman

Love, Waiting, Parents

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.
Tim Roth

Great, Care, Why

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
Jonathan Carroll

Time, Women, Men

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.
John Bolton

Spring, Survival, Israel

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
Carl Hiaasen

Nothing, Stars, Movie

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

Thought, Rather, Loved

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.
Lee Child

America, She, Reflection

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
Lucian Freud

Art, Giving, Trying

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

Done, Play, Sure

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

Music, Mother, Words

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.
Nicholas Lea

Truth, Find, Everyone

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
Siobhan Fahey

Love, Music, Passion

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia.
Kevin Rudd

Power, Thinking, Why

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

Forget, Book, Write

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.
Elisha Cuthbert

Character, Play, Wanted

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.
Martin Mull

Paint, Basically

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
Carly Rae Jepsen

Love, Great, Write

I got a fascination with food.
Heather Mills

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