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fascinations
«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.»
Author: Christian Dior
(Fashion designer)
| About:
40th birthday,
Women
| Keywords:
fascinating, fascination, fascinations, indefinitely, maximum, pace, races
«Any minute, any day, some players may break a long standing record. That's one of the fascinations about the game, the unexpected surprises.»
«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. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
absurdity, addiction, bank, bank account, bastard, cabinet, cabinets, collecting, cousin, fascination, fascinations, hobbies, obsession, occupation, of sound mind, sister, stamp, trophies, trophy
«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.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| Keywords:
conceptions, concert, concerts, courteous, fascination, fascinations, in concert, meditation, somewhat, suspend, suspending, symbolic, symbols, verbal
«The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.»
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
| Keywords:
fascination, fascinations, gun, Right or Wrong, shooting, sport, wholly
«Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
boredom, depend on, fascination, fascinations, reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing
«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.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, all ages, conversion, conversions, Conversion of, danger, degrading, drags, fascination, fascinations, high-minded, high and low, high level, incapable, level, lower, lowering, lowers, offered, rising
«As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
cease, fascination, fascinations, Long War, looked, More popular than, popular, popular with, regarded, vulgar, wick, wicked, wickedest
«Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
come after, Coming of age, fascination, fascinations, old age
«The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
dried, fascination, fascinations, rent, sap, saps, spontaneous, vein, veins
