Quotes About Interest

And that's the end," she said, and she saw in his eyes, as the interest of the story died away in them, something else take its place; something wondering, pale, like the reflection of a light, which at once made him gaze and marvel. Turning, she looked across the bay, and there, sure enough, coming regularly across the waves first two quick strokes and then one long steady stroke, was the light of the Lighthouse. It had been lit. -To The Lighthouse.

Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom—all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?

The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.

Natural focus occurs when the mind is interested. When this occurs, the mind is drawn irresistibly toward the object (or subject) of interest. It is effortless and relaxed, not tense and overly controlled.

Natural focus occurs when the mind is interested.

She wanted to get to know them: Savage and his easy charm and gorgeous smile. Jehan, with his intriguing past and enigmatic personality.

I have a thing for you, Ms. Laurent. In case you haven't noticed.

I wasn't sure if I liked him or not, but he sure had me interested in finding out.

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

The Qumran texts are also of interest in reflecting a preference for the expressions "Holy Spirit" and "Spirit of Holiness

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

hay algo que me muero por hacer." Bipa puso los ojos en blanco. -¿Otra de tus geniales ideas? pues mira, yo ya he tenido bastante. Si quieres hacer experimentos, te las tendrás que arreglar solo, porque yo no pienso volver a meterme en líos por tu culpa. Aer hizo una mueca de decepción. -pues es una lástima-aseguró-,porque sin ti no será la mitad de interesante. Y la besó sin previo aviso.

Amiel was looking at me with the kind of interest that made my mouth dry up. I was Braille and his eyes were fingers.

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

His attention span was not long, shall we say?

It turned out that not all of those poems were so boring.

How could we have sexual relations with extraterrestrials unless they were remarkably like us biologically? Why would extraterrestrials have any interest in having sexual intercourse with us unless we were very similar? Why do many male extraterrestrials find female Earthlings sexually alluring?

Indeed, "All great periods of culture have been periods of political decline." The energy required for politics on a large scale, or in economy, or in universal commerce, or in parliamentarism, or in military interest, usually reduces the level of culture of a people.

All the boys will be after you now.

Gli ignoranti saranno sempre ignoranti, perché la forza è nelle mani di chi ha interesse che la gente non capisca, nelle mani del governo, dei neri, dei capitalisti...

A snob, incidentally, I tell them, is interested in a person because they are of high class. An elitist is interested in a person because they are interesting. That's the difference.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!