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Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating. -- Felix Baumgartner
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me. -- Adam Brody
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home. -- Len Wein
Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it. -- Joss Whedon
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. -- David Hume
I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions. -- Eric Clapton
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
A captivating moment was when I realized that people, including myself, were not saying, 'I just bought an item on eBay.' They were saying, 'I just won an item on eBay.' It was the thrill of the hunt. I bought a car on eBay. -- Mary Meeker
Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me. -- Henry Rollins
What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving? -- Stasi Eldredge
Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. -- Fatema Mernissi
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes. -- Dian Fossey
A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses. -- Alber Elbaz
Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean. -- J.R. Ward
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity. -- Franz Grillparzer
Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating. -- Melissa McCarthy
An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm. -- Leatrice Eiseman
What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element. -- Hideo Kojima
Kirk Cameron pulls no punches in his exploration of mankind's greatest dilemma. Unstoppable is a captivating, raw, and candid journey that gracefully delivers hope and poignant truth every step of the way. It's a masterful and timely production! -- Ray Comfort
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind. -- Fisher Ames
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. -- Marie Curie
Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith. -- Fisher Ames
Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet. -- Elinor Gadon
Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism. -- Rand Paul
Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me. -- Adam Baldwin
The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites. -- Ridley Scott
I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs. -- David Archuleta
The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different. -- Rachel G. Fox
In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there. -- Mario Cuomo
I love the stuff that makes you laugh and cry. It kind of sucker-punches you a little bit. That's the thing that most interests me as a performer, in addition to telling the most captivating story. -- Matt McGorry
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us. -- Edgar Ramirez
I think about a Richard Avedon photo series, the kind of faces he gets of real people, which I find so captivating. Fellini was also great in filling his films with this ambiance, this environment, sometimes chaotic and carnival-like, but people's faces were always amazing. -- Cary Fukunaga
Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent. -- Jack Gleeson
Memory is, first, a captivating mystery. -- Patricia Hampl
You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy. -- Delano Johnson
Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer. -- Ryan Lilly
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. -- Thomas Malthus
Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship. -- Ryan Lilly
A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods. -- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well. -- Robert Lane Greene
Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live. -- Steven Levitt
Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds. -- Kerry James Marshall
I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home. -- Candice Olson
While PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid, the captivating 2014 color of the year, encouraged creativity and innovation, Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability, -- Leatrice Eiseman
I'd seen him fight before, but it never got old. He was captivating. He never stopped moving. Every action was graceful and lethal. He was a dancer of death. -- Richelle Mead
The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys. -- Thad Carhart
I read Butterfly's Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice"?and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably. -- Josephine Humphreys
First and foremost, God is the true hero of the story. No matter how captivating the other characters may be, our top priority is to discover what the Bible reveals about God. -- Carolyn Custis James
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry. -- Aberjhani
There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself. -- William Hazlitt

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