Words matter. These are the best Fascination Quotes from famous people such as H. P. Lovecraft, Dawn O’Porter, Todd Rundgren, Henry Reed, Darin Strauss, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
I’ll admit, my fascination with Lesley Hornby is entirely about her looks. I don’t feel unfeminist saying that, because she was a professional model at a moment in history that I am mildly obsessed with.
I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I’m like a Casanova of music. I can’t seem to settle down with one musical form.
When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.
I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.
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.
When I was growing up, and periodically going to India to visit my grandmother, my classmates would often ask me about the trains. There was an exotic fascination with people sitting on top of the carriages.
I’ve always had a fascination with vampires. It’s not that I’m exactly fascinated with the dark side. It’s the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.
To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.
Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.
I have a fascination for extra-judicial societies and underground cultures, and in situations where justice can only be found outside the law, and how these societies have evolved over the centuries.
The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me ‘Small Change,’ and I just couldn’t get over that this was a white guy singing.
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.
All the fascination with numbers conspires to make you forget the beauty of the game sometimes.
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.
The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.
I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can’t really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.
I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when I was a 19-year-old standup comedian, and that’s where my fascination with his incredible story began.
Prison has a universal fascination. It’s a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
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.
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.
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.
The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
I’ve always had a certain fascination. It’s basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.
When I started out, I wasn’t a big guy either. I got into bodybuilding just by working out, and starting a fascination with it.
I tour Europe a lot. They still have a love and a fascination with the basic thing about music – how it feels and that being the focus. I’ve got people bringing their kids. And their kids bring their kids. The grandchildren are getting selfies with their Uncle Al.
I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
There is a fascination with the idea that one has ‘seen someone else do something’ before one can achieve it. Maybe that’s true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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.
So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
I think the fascination with zombies is that they don’t obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
I’m really into fashion, and there’s this fascination the world over around this idea of the French woman.
At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.
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?
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination and skepticism.
I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.
I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.
My advice is not to aim for prizes and awards. We are in this for the joy of research, the fascination, the love of science. That’s the reward, really.
I’ve always had a fascination with gymnastics, since I was a kid. It was the one thing at the Olympics that I would be like, ‘Mom can I stay up late to watch gymnastics?’
Yes, I enjoyed my share of fantasy fiction series and comics. Among superheroes, Spiderman was my favorite. I always had this fascination for costume-clad vigilante who would come and save the day!
As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies – sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.
Because we’ve never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
I’ve grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone’s mind – and perhaps I am. Perhaps it’s quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
The fascination about being a judge is the same about the duty of being a judge, and that is to ask yourself, Why am I about to rule the way I am about to rule? You must always ask yourself that question.
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
I can only really speak for myself and what I’ve noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They’re so different from human beings.
Many of the animals that are traditionally seen as vermin are my life’s fascination.
I have this fascination with space, but I also have a fascination with the Titanic.
There’s an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
I think that, like the show ‘Game of Thrones,’ our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.
I don’t know what the fascination is with ‘Jersey Shore,’ the show. I grew up going to the Jersey Shore and I think it’s an incredible place to vacation. The show, I think people like to see crazy TV, and that’s what the fascination is.
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.