Quotes about Fascination

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

God has designed every component of his creation to display some aspect of his care, and each holds a unique fascination for the human observer. Thus, we can easily engage both young and older minds with some newly discovered feature or fact of nature. If we can make a connection between that discovery and one of God's attributes or a component of God's plan to redeem humanity, we will have provided a stronger motivation for people to seriously investigate the book of Scripture.

Housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the following plate was completed in 1886, portraying the unusual subject of a skeleton smoking a cigarette. The work has roused many interpretations, including a depiction of mortality and a prophetic cry of the dangers of tobacco. In the next two years, van Gogh painted two other paintings with skulls, illustrating his fascination with the macabre subject.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

I couldn't tell the difference between the books they were talking about and their lives, they were just that cool.

Cultivate admiration.

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on the window-pane.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.