Bill Bryson Quotes

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.

Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held

Beauty draws more than oxen.

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

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

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

The serpent has already commenced his coil about our limbs, and the lethargy of its poison is creeping over us.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

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.

I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It's somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both.

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.

I was captivated by Stephanie Mills.

I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips formed the vowels. The timbre of his voice stuck in my head like music.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

But you're so hypnotizing You've got me laughing while I sing You've got me smiling in my sleep And I can see this unravelling Your love is where I'm falling But please don't catch me