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Interest Quotes


"It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins."


"But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested."


"I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts."


"With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow."


"For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before."


"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."


"We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free."


"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."


"What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well."


"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."


"One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."


"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."


"I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me."


"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest."


"I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so."


"Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly."


"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real."


"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."


"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."


"It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go."


"We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways."


"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials."


"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."


"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."


"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."


"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."



"Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations."


"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."


"Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you."


"I have no interest in writing, directing or producing."


"It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team."


"I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology."


"The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee."


"They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies."


"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."


"We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us."


"We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff."


"I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does."


"The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest."


"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
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