Interesting Quote by William Dean Howells Download Open image “The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.” — William Dean Howells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interesting Secret
The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“(during a conversation about how "unlucky" intelligent, passionate people are who don't know what they want precisely) By the very nature of what we… — Kelly Chase Offield Copy Share Image
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing… — William James Copy Share Image
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. — Jack Gardner Copy Share Image
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“If he was not commonplace, it was through nothing remarkable in his mind, which was simply clear and practical, but through some combination of… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage in our… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what… — Joyce Van Patten Copy Share Image
Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image