Interesting Quotes

• My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • World
  • Church
  • Audience

• May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people.

  

  Eric Frank Russell
  • Interesting
  • Attention
  • Important Person

• I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Taken

• The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • Interesting

• I proudly love being a Negro woman - it's so involved and interesting.

  

  Anne Spencer
  • Interesting
  • Being
  • Negro

• There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Painting
  • Imagine

• In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • World
  • Real
  • Crazy

• I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• I do have health insurance (don't fine me, Barack Obama!). And while we agree that career is important, my mother has an AOL email address and shares articles she finds interesting on Facebook by screen shotting and posting a picture of them. So, if mother doesn't understand links, she's not going to understand what I do for a living. I'm confident in my current career trajectory, so this will be another Mother's Day disappointment.

  

  Kate Siegel
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Share

• Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Funny
  • China
  • Thrilling

• If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

  

  Helen Keller
  • Rich
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

  

  Paul Giamatti
  • Interesting
  • Acting
  • Talking

• In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

  

  Steven Weinberg
  • Interesting
  • Simplicity
  • Complexity

• A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Stories

• Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Talk
  • Likes
  • Shop

• The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• The more films and TV shows I spoil for myself, the more I am convinced that truly interesting stories can't be ruined - the plot thickens with the viewing like a rich sauce.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Interesting

• Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Scene

• I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Interesting

• We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Kindness
  • Insight
  • Generous

• What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Interesting

• Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Interesting
  • Fashion
  • Minutes

• When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Pretty
  • Responsibility
  • Accountability

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