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Quotes About Interest

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
~ Daisy Berkowitz
As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.
~ David Morrissey
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in the paradise where happy mares and stallion live, open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Mr. Arthur Brisbane says: One thing above all brings success—to like your work and to be interested in it; and not to like your work is the one thing above all others that brings failure.
~ Orison Swett Marden
readers tend to like a character who is at least superficially like themselves. But they quickly lose interest unless this particular character is somehow out of the ordinary. The character may wear the mask of the common man, but underneath his true face must always be the face of the hero.
~ Orson Scott Card
I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
~ Orson Welles
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
~ Oscar Wilde
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
~ Oscar Wilde
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
~ Oscar Wilde
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
~ Oscar Wilde
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
~ Oscar Wilde
I didn't say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
~ Oscar Wilde
The multinationals who'd been backing Darby and Gentilla lost interest, and time travel had been handed over to historians and scientists
~ Connie Willis
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
~ Conrad Joseph
I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
~ Cormac McCarthy
È interessante sapere come funziona il mondo. [...] La gente mi chiede «Perche ti interessa la fisica?». Ma perche non dovrebbe? Per me, la cosa più curiosa di tutte è la mancanza di curiosità. Proprio non la capisco.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People are interested in other people. But your unconscious is not. Or only as they might directly affect you. It's been hired to do a very specific job. It never sleeps. It's more faithful than God.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Gefährlich ... seit wann interessiert dich das?
~ Cornelia Funke
I enjoy almost everything I do, perhaps because when I don't enjoy something, I don't do it. I enjoy writing; I enjoy teaching; I enjoy having a family to live among. I am neither a feminist nor an antifeminist, because it seems to me that we are first human beings and after that men and women. Human beings have, so far, proved interesting enough to keep me busy just trying to figure out what might be right and true about them.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Neither was in love with a young man unless he was she were verbally very near: that is unless they were profoundly interested, talking to one another. The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months...
~ D.H. Lawrence
But Paul liked the girls best. The men seemed common and rather dull. He liked them all, but they were uninteresting.
~ D.H. Lawrence