People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.
Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.
All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.
When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.
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.
To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.
The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal ahead.
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile
Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.
It was this fascination with hidden lives, I suspect, that led me to journalism; seeking to uncover the truth about people became a job.
My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.
I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.
What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.
No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.
I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.
I used to read voraciously while in school and cinema was always a fascination. Law was the safe backup plan.
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.
A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.
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 recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination and skepticism.
Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty
The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches.
I have a fascination for cartoons. No matter how many times 'Tom and Jerry' fall, you never complain, and watch it again.
I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
I've always had a fascination with hugging (I'm not really particular about who or what it is I'm embracing as long as there's a “squish” factor).
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.
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
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.
An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?
People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.
I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.
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.
Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.
I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'
He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.
Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.
It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.
Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
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