Human Interest Quotes

26 quotes by 26 authors

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of… — Archibald MacLeish
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through… — Alexey Brodovitch
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the… — Peter Singer
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics… — Stewart Brand
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest. — Asger Jorn
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock. — Damon Runyon
The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest,… — Michael Franti
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us. — Andrew Miller
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means… — Alice Duer Miller
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It… — David Korten
If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be… — Howard Pyle
Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little… — Barbara Johnson
That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be… — Casey Kasem
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we… — Dan Chaon
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine. — Aimee Mullins
People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. — Edward Norton
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are… — Terry Pratchett
Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human… — Robert Winston
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy. — Dan Brown
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe… — Noam Chomsky

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