The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is… — Jerome Flynn Copy Share Image
Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves,… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or… — Mooji Copy Share Image
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“Oh! Great Lady of Fascination! We arise in somnambulant awe and dance entranced as you glide slowly and softly through the Heavenly… — Lady Svetlana Copy Share Image
I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted -… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy… There is a… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The concept of graphene came along in 1947, but nobody paid much attention to it. I was fascinated because it had a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“People are so different, so fascinating, each in his or her own specific world, waiting to crash into and effect another. Waiting… — Vee Hoffman Copy Share Image
Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through… — Honor Harger Copy Share Image
Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago... they're like rock… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight.… — George Armitage Miller Copy Share Image
There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I like to bring a certain sense of humanity and detail to my work, and watercolor allows me to do that. I… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where… — El-P Copy Share Image
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
