Joanna Baillie Quotes

What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Things that are unknown attract us.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

Sexiness is in what you cover, not what you show. When you are covered, you leave a lot to people's imagination. People see the mystery in my eyes and find it sexy.