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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. -- H. P. Lovecraft
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
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
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
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter. -- Frederick Sanger
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
I went brunette for a film called Fascination and I loved it. -- Alice Evans
Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward. -- Erving Polster
What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile -- Joseph Delaney
Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path. -- Starhawk
Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works. -- Jim Rohn
The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal. -- Quentin S. Crisp
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse. -- Jane Smiley
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
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'. -- Quentin S. Crisp
I always had a fascination with twins. -- Francine Pascal
But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives. -- Calista Flockhart
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad. -- Sean Bean
I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. -- Joshua Lederberg
My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination. -- Jello Biafra
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures. -- Bo Derek
I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will. -- Ross Kemp
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion. -- Siobhan Fahey
Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences. -- Meg White
I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth. -- Nicholas Lea
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it. -- Jim Rohn
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy. -- Chris Wedge
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
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. -- Ariel Garten
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. -- Lisa Unger
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life. -- Jose Saramago
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
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. -- Jeanette Winterson
Ive 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
My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. -- Andy Warhol
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. -- Sonya Levien
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology. -- Jayne Ann Krentz
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
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. -- Michael Leunig
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
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
I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity. -- Ray Dolby
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world. -- Elie Wiesel
In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it -- Isabella Rossellini
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
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
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
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
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
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
Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down. -- Reggie Watts
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
I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country. -- Robert Plant
I got a fascination with food. -- Heather Mills
Develop a childlike fascination with life and people. -- Jim Rohn
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I've always had a fascination about mixing music, -- Blake Michael
When I was younger, I never had that fascination. -- Luke Evans
There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic. -- W.S. Gilbert
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked. -- William Cowper
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention. -- Bernard Beckett
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. -- Luke Evans
Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail. -- Stephen Jay Gould
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time. -- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
I think there is a certain fascination with a man's hair. -- Justin Hawkins
I think there is a fascination with choral music in general. -- Ed Droste
As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires. -- Johnny Depp
Personal trials are the great equalizer that continues to draw public fascination. -- Alana Stewart
Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood. -- Sigmund Freud
I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating. -- Chantal Joffe
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God. -- Evelyn Underhill
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination. -- Don DeLillo
I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school. -- Patrick Carney
When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all. -- James Beard
What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark? -- E.A. Bucchianeri
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom. -- David Mitchell
There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London. -- Craig Finn
I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise. -- Joel Edgerton
As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me. -- Charley Pride
There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority. -- Joel Edgerton
[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination. -- Reggie Watts
In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight -- Hugh Massingberd
Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter. -- Charlotte Sullivan
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. -- Edgar Ramirez
My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past. -- Sara Sheridan
The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject. -- Carly Rae Jepsen
I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child. -- Katherine Helmond
For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history. -- Rachel Holmes
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. -- Dagobert D. Runes
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination. -- Yoshida Kenko
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really. -- Chiaki Kuriyama
What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination. -- Brian Koppelman
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. -- Ernst Haas
To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years. -- Donald Cram
Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy. -- Marilyn Manson
The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination. -- Fredric Jameson
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature -- Rudolf Spielmann
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. -- Nicolas Cage
I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. -- John Bolton
It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm. -- Jim Rowe
There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is. -- Dean Koontz
I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird. -- Gemma Files
The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite. -- Carl Sandburg
God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world -- Vern Poythress
Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination. -- Thomas Crum
Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you! -- Joseph Simmons
I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage. -- David Bowie
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? -- Jean Genet
The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us. -- Richard Bach
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A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. -- James Stockdale
Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains~? -- Jay Woodman
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. -- Saint John Chrysostom
An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. -- Eric Maisel

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