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“The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.”

Important Light Reading Clarity Documents Autobiography Caves Fascination Sonnet

Author:Gilbert Highet

“Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.”

Talking Sweet Shapes Fascination Good Sense Courtship Barns

Book:My Brother's Killer

Source: My Brother's Killer

“The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.”

Knows Done Play Certain Actors Comedy Discipline Not Sure Broadway Fascination

Author:Bob Newhart

“Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.”

Powerful Family Achievement Glory Tragedy Impact Tales Exception Vivid Fascination Compounds Degradation Spirals American Family

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness.”

Mean Art Hands Sides Roles Issues Information Negative Photograph Technique Composition Selection Fascination Eccentric Fortuitous

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world; when represented in a picture, the object conveys this mystery all the more powerfully, the less of a 'function' the picture has. Hence, for instance, the growing fascination of many beautiful old portraits.”

World Art Beautiful Courses Sides Growing Mystery Objects Painting Function Instance Portraits Fascination Transcendental

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They only show one tiny aspect of the subject of war - maybe only my own childish feelings of fear and fascination with war and with weapons of that kind.”

Kind Art War Shows Feelings My Own Subjects Painting Weapons Aspect Tiny Statements Combat Anti War Fascination Bombers

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.”

Men World Way Spirituality Differences Style Huge Female Males Starting Significant Fascination Implications Starting Point

Author:Richard Rohr

“I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.”

Should Hands Care Film Acting Performances Don't Care British Compare I Don't Care Businessman Fascination Distributors Great Performance British Film

Author:Tim Roth

“I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.”

Thinking Firsts Choices Summer Conscious Monsters Desert Camps Abandoned Zombie Fascination Swamps Summer Camp

Author:Max Brooks

“I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.”

School Four High School Track Fascination Recorders

Author:Patrick Carney

“Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?”

Men Stories Jesus Particular Western Centre Fascination Civilisation

Author:Simon Callow

“Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.”

Has Beens Cities Right Now Senses Fascination

Author:Jack Dorsey

“Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.”

Earth Passion Nature Responsibility Diversity Classroom Fascination Kindles Sense Of Responsibility Diversity Of Life

Author:David Attenborough

“Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not believe that I am alone in this - a fascination with words is shared by people in all countries and all walks of life.”

People Mind Believe Country Science Walks Offers Constant Surprise Rewards Delight Variety Carrie Fascination Walks Of Life

Author:George Armitage Miller

“I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.”

Children Grew Walking Grew Up Hearing Fascination Undead

Author:Katherine Helmond

“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.”

Seems Happens Very Good Reputation Bores Good Friend Fascination Very Good Friends Socialites

Author:Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

“The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.”

“Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.”

White Too Much Knees Cake Trash Fascination Taboo Libido White Trash Social Taboos

Author:Marilyn Manson