Interest Quotes · Page 135

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

— Scott McClanahan

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much…

— Anonymous

People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do…

— David Brooks

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

— Carlos Fuentes

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

— Ian Bremmer

In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.

— Philip Kotler

Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.

— Jim Stanford

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is…

— Anthony Hopkins

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator…

— George Lucas

While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them…

— Robert Scheer

Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of…

— Joe B Wyatt

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it.…

— Carl Paladino

I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into…

— Linus Pauling

We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its…

— Ronald Reagan

For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a…

— Lydia Polgreen

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions…

— William Hazlitt

There are two ways that you can go wrong in our long-term fight against jihadis. One would be to not acknowledge that…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

My interest in music tends toward being orchestral music. And the repertoire of music that exists is, to me, far more emotive…

— Crispin Glover

If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength,…

— Phyllis Chesler

The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now…

— Martha Stewart

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I don't have a preference for bad people, no. I have an interest in playing a broad range of characters. Obviously, I'm…

— Leonard Nimoy

There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in…

— Lakshmi Mittal

If there was something that I took an interest in that I'd go to college to learn about, I'd go.

— Teddy Geiger

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own…

— Eli Pariser

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James…

— Damon Runyon

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest,…

— Joseph Lancaster

The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you…

— Anne Catherine Emmerich

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

— Vernon Howard

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new…

— Allen Lacy

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

— Yuri Milner

Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it…

— Dale Carnegie

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

— Jamie Wyeth

Whenever I hear people utter anti-German sentiments, I say: You can't blame Germany for defending its own interests.

— Marine Le Pen

I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs

— Adolf Hitler

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and…

— Gavyn Davies

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

— Li Peng

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the…

— Anais Nin