Interesting Quotes · Page 82

Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

— Barbra Streisand

“A little damage makes people more interesting, right?”

— Catherine Hapka

All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

— Winston Churchill

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

“It will be interesting to find out something about her that no one else knew.”

— Hinako Ashihara

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

— Jack Gardner

The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it…

— Edith Wharton

When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always…

— Dallas Clayton

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

— Abbi Jacobson

“isn’t all that unusual to me. The fact that they’re all magic users is more interesting than their sleeping arrangements.”

— Zoe E. Whitten

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

— Bertrand Russell

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

— John Berger

I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like…

— Winsor McCay

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres…

— Luis Miguel

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only…

— Garry Winogrand

Acting is interesting because you get to be involved in different stories and get to work with different people. Also, acting allows…

— Nandita Das

I did an episode on the TV show 'Awake,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's really hard.' To do that so fast and…

— Ayelet Zurer

I often wonder if it makes me a less interesting person, because it really is music that I geek out about exclusively.…

— Todd Carey

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training…

— Annie Besant

I think New York is much more focused on what you're doing. You have to try harder to make sure you have…

— Tiffany Shlain

I'm not writing anything out of some sense of obligation, or for marketing purposes. This is just what I prefer to write.…

— Hope Larson

It's always interesting to me when one platform of media crosses into another. We've been on the Terry Gross show Fresh Air…

— John Flansburgh

It's interesting because the way J.J. cuts - we're very close with our editors as well, so it's kind of the first…

— Bryan Burk

There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside…

— Todd Farmer

Toby [Huss] gets shot, or that part when [John] Travolta says this, or the part where Ethan [Hawke] says that cool thing…

— Ti West

What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they…

— David Hockney

I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government…

— Bill Hicks

Intelligence is an interesting word. It is also something which, in my opinion, is misunderstood by many people. There are those who…

— Bob Proctor

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

— Jacob Needleman

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

— Bruce Nauman

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

— Vetrimaaran

I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

— Imtiaz Ali

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

— Clay Shirky

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

— Augusten Burroughs

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

— David Ebershoff