I have always been free with my love – it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.

The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me.

Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.

I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.

I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn’t ever wanna progress out of that scene.

I remember being captivated by Jules Verne’s ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea‘ when I read it as a kid.

I was captivated by Stephanie Mills.

Sophie [Kinsella]’s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one book. Now there’s five. So, we were very fortunate to latch onto a character who has since become an international success both as a novel and hopefully now as a movie.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I’ve gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown‘s bicycle.

I was a fan of DMC but I was captivated by Run‘s style, I wanted to be the man. As a kid, when somebody got that kinda influence over a child… you know how strong that can be.

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like ‘Coma,’ ‘The Hunt for Red October‘ and ‘The Firm‘ all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little – medical science, submarine technology and the law.

Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

The ‘Blacklist’ duology is a project I am very passionate about, and when the St. Martin‘s Press team approached me, I was captivated with their presentation.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

I’ve always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript – the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don’t be captivated by the siren song of the market.

Fashion has always captivated me because, like I said, it has the potential to create narratives about what’s beautiful, aspirational, chic, masculine, feminine, glamorous, etc. Generally, this power is dispatched in useless ways.

I really fixated on any time there was any kind of monster in ‘Star Wars,’ even to the briefest second. As a kid, it really captivated my imagination.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

Literally, my earliest memory, my earliest vivid memory, is the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Yeah, I was in fourth grade, and I was just so captivated. And I think you’ll find a lot of space scientists of my generation will say the same thing. Apollo was a big event for them.

I’m always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring – misbehaving women.

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn’t this expectation of what they’re about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.

I’m riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, ‘megaramp’ skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I’m fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I’m also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal.

When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.

I was taken to my first fashion show – Nina Ricci haute couture – in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

As the technology matures, it becomes less and less relevant. The technology is taken for granted. Now, new customers enter the marketplace, customers who are not captivated by technology, but who instead want reliability, convenience, no fuss or bother, and low cost.

I was captivated by Sherrie Flick‘s meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.

I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.

The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

Whenever I meet children‘s parents, they complain that the kids don’t sleep until they listen to my whistle baja song! My songs have captivated the kids.

I honestly don’t understand how people don’t enjoy watching Ryan Hall compete. I genuinely love every minute of his fights. They are different and fun. I’m captivated the entire time.

Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

No film has captivated my imagination more than ‘King Kong.’ I’m making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

I don’t know why I’ve always been so captivated by architecture.

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He’s just the real deal. I’m captivated by him because there’s so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

I’ve been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

It’s a great gift in my throat. When you have a gift, you think about the giver. Who gave this to me? And this takes you to a spiritual sense of God. That has captivated me all through my life, serving that lucky gift.

I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I’m in a position where I can actually become one.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you’re so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

I’m captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President, and even compelled acquiescence or silence from that dread source of paralyzing power, the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.