Quotes with fascination

  • Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.
  • I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.

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  • Oscar Wilde As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mary McCarthy Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Caitlin Doughty 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.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Keith Richards Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
    Keith Richards
    British musician, guitarist and songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard 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.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Billy Burke The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
    Billy Burke
    American actor
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Newhart 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
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • H. P. Lovecraft The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Marguerite Duras The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Beckett There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Alan Watts We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Carl Hiaasen We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Jean Genet Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Walt Whitman Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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