Fascination Quotes Page 2

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling.

When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

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.

Snowflakes fascinate me... Millions of them falling gently to the ground... And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different from all the others... The last of the rugged individualists!

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

The future, for me, is romantic, I don’t understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don’t know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me.

In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it.

I always wanted to be a photographer.

I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

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.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy.

She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating.

I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

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

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

I've always been fascinated by dark subjects, especially people's reactions to them. Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death if everyone dies?

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

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.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.