Quotes about interest
page 10
Source: Wild Man Creek

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
Dunn, Adam. " In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when http://web.archive.org/web/20010625162920/http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/" cnn.com Book News. 27 Oct. 2000 (archived from the original http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/ on 2001-06-25).
Interviews
Context: More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Source: Scandal in Spring
“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”

“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”
Source: The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays

Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man from feeling forever stunned and useless. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. God, they all had assholes and sexual organs and their mouths and their armpits. They shit and they chattered and they were dull as horse dung. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun. I would certainly never be able to be happy, to get married, I could never have children. Hell, I couldn't even get a job as a dishwasher.

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

“Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”

Source: Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

Letter to H.G. Wells (10 July 1915).
“You're an interesting woman."
"Your interest has been duly noted.”
Source: Magic Burns

“Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Variant: In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”
Variant: It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Source: The Alchemist

“I'm only interested in poetry.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”
Source: The Ministry of Fear
Source: Faking It

Source: The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology

Source: Horns

“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”

"A First Word"
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)

Source: Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Source: The Invitation

“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“Beware
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease”

“I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.”

“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.”
Source: Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005)
“Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”
Source: North of Beautiful

1950's
Source: Conversations with Artists, Selden Rodman, New York Devin-Adair 1957. p. 93.; reprinted as 'Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956', in Writings on Art: Mark Rothko (2006) ed. Miguel López-Remiro p. 119 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=ZdYLk3m2TN4C&pg=PA119
Context: I am not an abstractionist... I am not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else... I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!

“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.”


“Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?”
Source: It Had to Be You
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.”