#fascination

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australia #being #continent #cultures #fascination

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

Most fools drink after one another, from a thinking cup that is empty. But I only drink after people whose cups are filled with a fluid to fascination ratio of nearly 1:1. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fascination #funny #thinking #funny

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cease #fascination #long #looked #popular

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect! ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#always #beings #birth #call #even

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#been #fascinated #fascination #movie #movie stars

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#become #capacity #emotionally #endless #exist

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

I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job. ↗

— Charlotte Ross

#been #business #decided #doing #fascination