Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.
The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.
It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature
I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.
I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.