A Quote by Mason Cooley

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

Mason Cooley

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Boring Fascinating Find Found Many Sacred Uncanny

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice, and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

Angelina Jolie

I didn't really have anyone in particular who inspired me or that I found fascinating as a kid. It wasn't until I was in my early twenties that I began to find people - and they were all historic figures - that I began to relate to and find some inspiration in.

Chelsea Manning

Guitar players I find kind of boring - and that's not meant as a dig. I find myself boring.

Joe Satriani

I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

Jacki Weaver

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

John Banville

I find it very boring to keep on talking about myself! Which is why I find giving interviews also very boring.

Dimple Kapadia

I actually found contracting malaria in the Congo fascinating. Observing your body under attack from this microorganism and seeing how it responds is simultaneously fascinating and awful but maybe that's just because I'm a former biology teacher.

Jeremy Wade

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it as I'd experienced it, or portrayed translators as the passionate risk-takers that so many of the translators I know are. So I wrote the book I couldn't find.

Idra Novey

From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

Daniel Quinn

At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Isabella Bird

Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. I'd rather be outdoors having fun.

Constance Jablonski

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

Roger Bannister

Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. Id rather be outdoors having fun.

Constance Jablonski

I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.