Fascinating Quotes

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

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she's a fascinating character.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.