Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

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 think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

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

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

I think we've always, as a species, been fascinated with stuff that we don't understand. Anytime someone can shed light on that, whether it's legit or just somebody's fantasy of what that stuff is, I think people take notice.

I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.

People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read.

A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?’ ‘Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of -‘ ‘Someone you used to know?’ Alec interjected skeptically. ‘Someone I used to be.

What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?

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

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

I always wanted to strip. I'm sort of one of those people who would walk past a strip club and while everybody else might give it a passing glance or cracks a joke, I'd be like pressing my face up against the window trying to see in. I was very curious always.

Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page." A smile curved the corners of his lips as he added huskily, "Footnotes included.