Interest Quotes · Page 81

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.

— J. K. Rowling

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.

— George Whitefield

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

— Serj Tankian

It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was…

— Cinda Williams Chima

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have…

— Jim Walton

The key is whether or not we have got priorities that are working for you, as opposed to those who have been…

— Barack Obama

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics…

— Patricia Piccinini

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask…

— Anna Kournikova

I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one…

— Paul Stanley

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of…

— Joel Miller

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I…

— Kevin Spacey

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that…

— Willem de Kooning

Suppose whether or not someone tells me a lie depends only on whether he wants to, but he is morally indifferent, he…

— Nomy Arpaly

I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least…

— Charles Bukowski

In fact, Clinton-era publications of the US Space Command describe control over space as a parallel to control over the oceans a…

— Noam Chomsky

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now…

— Marcus Aurelius

Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes…

— Renata Adler

We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the…

— Richard P. Feynman

Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed,…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

“It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.”

— peter adejimi

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

— Joseph Brodsky

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the…

— John Warren Kindt

“The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.”

— Steven Magee

[Sex] is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it, and it's fun, it's interesting, it has…

— Khushwant Singh

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I…

— Rita Dove

MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before…

— Bill Dedman

I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.

— Samantha Power

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

— Ranveer Brar

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting…

— Cass Canfield

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

— Theresa May

Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether…

— Sam Shepard

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

— Anna Todd

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

— Edward Gibbon

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is…

— Nelson Goodman

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

— Robin Chase