#fascination

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#i #intrinsic #like #put #science

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#difficulty #fascination #learning #materials #medium

Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#complete #else #fantasy #fascination #go

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#because #character #fascination #had #head

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#fascination #kills #lives #me #personal

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? ↗

— Jean Genet

#delicious #fascination #felt #had #hadn

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#aspects #dark #dark side #deal #elements

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#astonishment #egypt #exercised #fascination #hesitation