Interesting Quotes

• A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.

  

  Odd Nerdrum
  • Believe
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Killing
  • Weapon
  • Troops

• It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day,-this is the work of genius.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Work
  • True
  • Opinion

• For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Time
  • World
  • Interesting

• Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!

  

  Lee Remick
  • Different
  • Interesting

• For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

  

  Christian Cota
  • Interesting

• So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Looking back, I do think one of the reasons 'Thirteen Reasons Why' has been so successful is not because it deals with serious issues but because I had a unique and interesting way to tell that story. I knew the issues were going to be dealt with in the book, but I felt my job was to write the story as entertainingly as possible.

  

  Jay Asher
  • Why
  • Job
  • Book

• I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • Important
  • School
  • American

• Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

  

  James Avery
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Lonely

• I actually don't like saying 'lead character,' which is an interesting thing. If you say there's a lead, then there has to be someone to follow.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Interesting

• I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

  

  Matt Barr
  • Life
  • Different
  • Lost

• 'NYT Opinion' offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Interesting
  • Opinion

• I think it's interesting to speak when you have something to say.

  

  Delphine Arnault
  • Interesting

• My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

  

  Martha Wainwright
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Brother

• I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Love
  • Hate

• It's a very, very interesting experience to be talking to people who are such icons in their own right. When Adele came to a show, I was just talking to her, and at the time, I thought, 'I'm just having a chat with somebody.' But then I heard myself say, 'Oh, I was talking to Adele the other day,' and it's as strange as you'd imagine.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Weird

• The transition to the United States was very interesting. I learned the language. I kind of got into the R&B. I'm a huge fan of the '80s, Journey and all that fun stuff. But when I moved to Orlando, it was more like Boyz II Men.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Journey

• In Hollywood, people tend to have the same sensibilities, the same taste and values, and I didn't want to spend my life that way. I wanted to have a bigger, more interesting life.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • People
  • Life
  • Interesting

• A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Mean

• The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Bad
  • Pain
  • Evil

• Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Interesting
  • Relationship
  • Player

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