Quotes About Interest

His one passion was for the game of golf, which Roosevelt found excruciatingly dull and slow.

Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, "but not one who will interest you more.

My library has been the greatest possible pleasure to me," he wrote to his parents during his freshman year, "as whenever I have any spare time I can immediately take up a book. Aunt Annie's present, the 'History of the Civil War,' is extremely interesting." From early childhood, he had regarded books as "the greatest of companions." And once encountered, they were never forgotten

Put ambition for the collective interest above self-interest.

You are the only person with a shaky interest in ethics and the emotional stability of a quince seed in a cup of lukewarm water.....

But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose, said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain? You can usually tell, said Miss de Vine, by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

It has been said, by myself and others, that a love-interest is only an intrusion upon a detective story. But to the characters involved, the detective-interest might well seem an irritating intrusion upon their love-story.

you were speaking just now with a good deal of feeling about Treble Bob—you are not, yourself, by any chance, a ringer?" "Well," said Wimsey, "I used at one time to pull quite a pretty rope. But whether, at this time of day——

I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely.

El aburrimiento se cura con curiosidad. La curiosidad no se cura con nada.

Lekiem na nud? jest ciekawo??. Na ciekawo?? nie ma leku.

La cura para el aburrimiento es la curiosidad. Para la curiosidad no existe cura.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

what is he, man or mouse? Is he interested in nothing more than tea and the wider issues of life? Has he no spirit? Has he no passion? Does he not, to put it in a nutshell, fuck?

Maybe people with weird haircuts are like structures that become interesting only after being wrecked - Florida ranch houses half-fallen into sinkholes; bankrupt malls; civilizations after a nuclear war. I feel a warm tragic glow knowing I may be of interest to the world only once I have been destroyed.

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly.