Quotes about interest
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“The house was on fire," i greeted them tersely. "In case you're interested."
they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke.
It's out, right?" he said”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Housing

“It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Fear

“any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense”

John Wilmot (1748–1815) English politician

Life

“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”

Naomi Klein (1970) Canadian author and activist

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)

Way

“I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: I don’t understand writers who have to work at it. I like to play. I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

Idea

“Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.”

Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist

Variant: Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

Past, Tattoo

“I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.”

Dan Rather (1931) Journalist, Anchor

Confidence

“We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time."

"I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.”

Anthony Horowitz book Eagle Strike

Source: Eagle Strike

Time

“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.”

Elena Ferrante book The Days of Abandonment

Source: The Days of Abandonment

Past

“That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Learning, Passion, Back To Work

“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”

Doris Lessing book The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing, ch. 2 (1950)

Truth, Personality

“… All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”

Kim Addonizio (1954) Poet, novelist

“I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry.
"That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible."
"Did the psychic think so?”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

Way, Thinking

“Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological”

Arthur C. Clarke book 3001: The Final Odyssey

Source: 3001: The Final Odyssey

Behavior

“I'm not interested in a life that doesn't have you in it.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

Life

“Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Tree, Perfection

“What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in

Thinking

“I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Life, Music

“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Death, People, World, Way

“What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

People, Understanding

“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Books, Light

“I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

As quoted in Multiple Intelligences in Practice : Enhancing Self-esteem and Learning in the Classroom (2006) by Mike Fleetham, Section 2 : Using MI
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

God

“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

Holly Lisle (1960) American writer

Source: The Silver Door

Fear, Hurt

“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”

Robert Anton Wilson book Masks of the Illuminati

Source: Masks of the Illuminati

People, Way, Madness

“I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.”

Georgette Heyer book Devil's Cub

Source: Devil's Cub

Youth, Feeling

“There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.”

Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States

Men, Country, Season

“I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

People

“I am not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author

This is a quote by Newt Gingrich, first appearing in an article in the Los Angeles Times in 1991. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-25/magazine/tm-2004_1_newt-gingrich/2 <br class="br">Misattributed

“It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.”

Cory Doctorow book For the Win

Source: For the Win

People, Stupidity, Question, Thinking

“My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

Failure

“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Thinking

“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: Rachel's Holiday

Life

“My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

Happiness, Indifference

“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

World, Travel

“If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi

Source: Gigi & The Cat

“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”

John Wilmot (1748–1815) English politician

World

“If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

Time

“…. there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

Help

“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

God

“I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: A History of Reading

Children, Books, Feeling, Game

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his (sic)patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Disease, Future

“You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.”

Brandon Sanderson book Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

People, Jerk, Time, Personality

“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?”

Wallace Stegner book Crossing to Safety

Source: Crossing to Safety

People

“I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed.

Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Women, Thinking, Clothes

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist

Life, World, Beauty, Nature

“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer

Motivation, Freedom, Loss, Help

“While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection”

Amartya Sen (1933) Indian economist

“I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Men

“Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.”

Robin D. Laws (1964) Canadian writer and game designer

Failure

“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: Jesting Pilate

Life, Money, Way, Reading

“It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

Marriage

“it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

People, Faith

“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”

Gertrude Stein book The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Source: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Variant: One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.
Source: Brave New World

Happiness, Truth, Beauty

“She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.”

Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage

Source: The Amateur Marriage

People

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it… he who doesn't… pays it.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

World, Understanding

“I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.”

Nicci French book Killing Me Softly

Source: Killing Me Softly

Life

“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Women, Thinking

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”

Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) Irish/English writer

Variant: What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.

Life, Heart

“I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.”

Jamie Lee Curtis (1958) actress, author

People

“It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Sense

“We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

Way, History, Freedom, Suffering

“Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

Art

“I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.”

Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time

After the Goskino representative explains that he is trying to give the point of view of the audience.
Sculpting in Time (1989)

People

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Beauty, Perfection

“What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.”

Richard Russo (1949) American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter

Home

“Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Life

“I collected men with interesting names.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Men

“We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.”

Jeffrey D. Sachs (1954) American economist

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

Stephen Jay Gould book The Panda's Thumb

"Wide hats and narrow minds" https://books.google.com/books?id=-lWtVSZoqWkC&pg=PA776 New Scientist 8 March 1979, p. 777. Reprinted in The Panda's Thumb, p. 151 https://books.google.com/books?id=z0XY7Rg_lOwC&pg=PA151. <br class="br">Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

People

“If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Christmas Wedding

People, Books, Stupidity, Reading

“I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

People, Art

“God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Life, God, Happiness

“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

People, Sense

“People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.”

Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher

People, Fear, Thinking, Passion

“It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Love, Nature

“If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

“Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Variant: Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Source: Margaret Thatcher

People, Age, Feeling, Idea

“The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

Truth

“People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

People

“Hell,” he said. “Just when it was getting interesting, too.” And he leaped into the water after his friend.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Hell, Water

“Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of those in the Nut. No interest in caging the pray for later use.
This is one of his death traps.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Death

“I'm not a. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Sex

“No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

“I heard some interesting things about your performance up here."

"I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Time

“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.”

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor

Hope, Art, Mood

“I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

Future

“But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story

“Of course, it had to be just a rebound thing. There was no way I was interested in this arrogant, obnoxious jerk. No matter how hot he might be.”

Jenna Black (1965) American writer

Source: Glimmerglass

Jerk, Way

“As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Men, Feeling

“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”

Tasha Alexander (1969) American writer

Source: And Only to Deceive

Travel, Time, Reading

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

As quoted without citation in Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology And Evolution (2006) by Peter J. Mayhew, p. 24
Attributed

Sex, Personality

“Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting”

Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016) American children's writer and illustrator

“People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.”

Robyn Donald (1940) New Zealand writer

Source: Tiger, Tiger

People, Age, Past, Future

“Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?
Athena's answer : What an interesting idea… No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Idea, Question

“Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all.

But holes are interesting things.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Waiting

“In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.”

Mike Dooley (1961) American writer

Love, Understanding

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