Interest Quotes
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The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
Judy Blume -
It's not in our interest, nor in the interest of other countries in the region, for terrorists to regroup again.
Haider al-Abadi
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Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?
Paul Keating -
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
Michael Tippett -
Chile needs Bolivian natural resources and Bolivia needs access to the sea. Under those circumstances, it must be possible to find a solution in the interest of both countries.
Evo Morales -
I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.
Tom Shadyac -
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
Michael Eric Dyson -
If you go off into general-interest magazines, often women are being shoved aside into various ghettos that perpetuate the problem. Women's interests are specialized, they're secondary; they're somewhere over to the side of the serious work that's being done. Throughout history, there have been ladies' magazines, ladies' journals, and for years there have been women writers who would refuse to participate in women-only sort projects because of that stigma.
Erin Belieu
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
Terry Brooks -
Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would know what was possible without the Nollywood model, so I'm grateful to them for showing us that our stories are of interest to people other than Nigerians. I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.
Chika Anadu -
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
Hector Hugh Munro -
The fall of the Syrian regime is in the interest of America and Israel.
Hassan Nasrallah -
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 -
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Cato the Elder
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Carolyn Wells -
Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
Stevie Smith -
I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me.
Elena Ferrante -
There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.
Christopher Bollen