Interest Quotes · Page 45

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

— Kiki Smith

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

— Bob Dylan

To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project

— Okey Ndibe

For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.

— Marine Le Pen

Cooking, you can keep. I've not the slightest interest in it.

— Maxine Peake

I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.

— Paul Taylor

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

— Ben Casnocha

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

— Germaine Greer

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide…

— Vladimir Putin

I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem…

— Tim Henman

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing…

— Andrew Marr

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps…

— Anonymous

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

— Emily Giffin

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

— Edward Gibbon

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the…

— Margaret Mitchell

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

— Beatrice Warde

According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must…

— Deng Xiaoping

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia…

— Jim Webb

You just have to be professional and show the kind of courtesy and interest in audiences that they have shown in me.…

— David Essex

Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident…

— Bryan Cranston

Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive…

— Alister MacKenzie

It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a…

— Christopher Moore

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard,…

— Paul Virilio

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so…

— Margaret Sanger

I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to…

— Wole Soyinka

“The nature of the mind is to acquire, to absorb, is it not? Or rather the pattern it has created for itself…

— Anonymous

Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport…

— Barbara Kingsolver

That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the…

— Edward Gibbon

George W. Bush tried working with the Russians after 9/11; Obama had the reset. Both presidents achieved less than they wanted, but…

— Daniel Fried

In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of…

— Vilfredo Pareto

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

— Samuel Johnson

When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

— Miles Davis

The economy is being run primarily by the banks for their own interest.

— Michael Hudson

I have no interest in a guy who doesn't know the right end of a screwdriver.

— Holly Marie Combs

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

— Ellen Ochoa

With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.

— Master P

Interest rates are used to achieve overall economic stability.

— Ben Bernanke

I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.

— Waris Ahluwalia