Top 474 Fascinating Quotes

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do – Freudian as that is.

I’m okay with the path that I’m on, but it’s fascinating to think, ‘I could’ve been a gay guy in Key West. I could be working at an insurance company in Lansing. But somehow, this is what’s happening.’

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.

The role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of the monarchy.

It is not easy to be a pioneer – but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

I think that Mary Baker Eddy was a fascinating character in American religious history.

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

I don’t know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run at the most fascinating.

I have interviewed Hugo Chavez, Tim McVeigh, and hundreds of fascinating characters in South America, where I have lived for the past 15 years.

The idea of wanting to do something that’s completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.

You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn’t happen at all if they’re told them enough times.

I think it’s fascinating that there’s a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that’s so interesting about the nature of humanity.

It’s fascinating when you’re from another place, but you don’t speak the language.

I love being with my children. They’re fascinating people.

I’m obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He’s unbelievable. I think he’s a modern day Brando. Every movie that he’s done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He’s extremely fascinating.

It’s fascinating that people, there’s so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I’m black. So I’m supposed to think a certain way. I’m supposed to have certain opinions. I don’t do that. You don’t create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

I’m one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me – but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn’t.

If you’re an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it’s something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I’ve always found it so fascinating.

Each couple’s version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I’ll think, ‘Yikes, they have horrible communication! They’re going to get divorced!’ And then I’ll hear about them at another time and think, ‘Wow, they love each other so much!’

If you’re sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.

Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.

I’ve surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.

‘Posh’ is not really political. I didn’t want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

Me, I’m a lesbian: I find women fascinating.

History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

Why should the televised stuff be only about pro gamers? For me it’s more fascinating to see who’s going to be the next god of gods than watching some pro gamer.

I’m one of those weird people that tends to not do the extras and listen to the commentaries and stuff on movies, although I do think they are fascinating and interesting – I’m just so worried that years later I wouldn’t remember anything!

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

I watched all these movies like ‘King Kong’ and ‘Godzilla’ when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating.

I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life’s most intense, fascinating game – the game of love.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like ‘Star Trek’ is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one’s career and a way to be involved in the issues of the day. And certainly, my father and my relatives really loved all that.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

When you’re used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world – it’s fascinating.

One thing is for sure I do not believe in dreaming and for me reality is more fascinating than fantasy.

Everybody prefers to see a nut – they’re more fascinating.

I’ve always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

I find Facebook absolutely fascinating because I don’t think there’s ever been any one source that had so much information about each of us – who we talk to, who our friends are, what books we read, what we’re buying, what movies we saw, what our travel is.

I think that I’ve tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

I always thought that at the very time of your life when you want to be cool and sexy and fascinating, you are none of those things. You are a hormonal muddle in your school uniform sitting in double science looking at a boy who you know will never notice you. That was definitely me; I was so shy at school.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Science is to do research because of the target’s fascinating and interesting characteristics.

I’m finding writing very fascinating.

I’m interested in the dark side of man. I’m interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I’ve been speaking English since I could speak.

The data center side of the world is kind of like a solved problem, but you see interesting things happening on the edge with things like cell phones and embedded systems that are becoming really fascinating.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it’s drama, it’s the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Tinder’s fascinating to me. I wish it was around when I was single and not on television because I can’t imagine doing it when you’re on TV.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it’s a rich vein to tap, and I don’t think I have exhausted it fully yet.

It’s fascinating to me how they build bridges or tunnels.

I don’t eat white breads, and I’m off dairy due to an allergic reaction and because of what it does to the body. I’ve learnt a lot about different foods and how the body breaks it down and what happens when we eliminate or incorporate certain foods, and it’s pretty fascinating!

‘Daughters of Britannia’ is a fascinating book, not least because it shines a light on a very dark corner of Foreign Office dealings. Diplomatic spouses are the Aunt Sallys of the foreign service: responsible for nearly everything, recognised for almost nothing.