Interesting Quotes

• From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Perspective
  • Development
  • Social

• A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant or ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Neurotics are heartless.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Reality
  • Mistake
  • Heartless

• The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Different
  • Interesting

• ...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Taken
  • Photography
  • Cat

• I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Long
  • Girl
  • Justice

• I just moved onto Queen West, after 20 years in Cabbagetown. The whole area around Trinity-Bellwoods is one of the juiciest in Toronto - all kinds of people to watch, dogs to pat, food to eat, galleries to check out. And the walk home from CBC delivers some of the most interesting window-shopping in town.

  

  Andy Barrie
  • Home
  • Galleries
  • Delivers

• I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

  

  Dean Cain
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Son

• I think the B-52's were a huge influence on Sleater-Kinney. The way that there'd be a really interesting guitar line that'd be really melodic and kind of simplistic, I really related to that. The sense of melody is really intense and fun. It's not just traditional song structures, but it's very melodic and draws you in, in kind of an immediate way.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Interesting

• I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

  

  E. L. James
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Block

• I think I would choose to do things because they are interesting, because I like a character or because it's very well-written. Or because it makes sense.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Interest
  • Made
  • Something Interesting

• Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

  

  Andrew Pyper
  • Interesting

• Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

  

  Adrian Forty
  • Interesting
  • Memory
  • Forgetfulness

• I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

  

  Lia Ices
  • World
  • Important
  • Thoughts

• My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.

  

  Denise Mina
  • Good
  • Great
  • Family

• I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Soul
  • Interesting
  • Funny

• ...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Reason
  • Smart
  • Boring

• I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Interesting
  • Car

• I think I have a period drama face. That's the reason I've always gone back to the West End, because for me, that's where all the interesting roles have been.

  

  Victoria Hamilton
  • Interesting
  • Drama
  • Period

• We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

  

  Alexander Karp
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Unique

• The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

  

  Tracy Chevalier
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.

  

  Edward Forbes
  • Interesting

• I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • People
  • Work
  • Attention

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