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Quotes About Interest

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle—
~ Jane Austen
Reconozco que no tengo la habilidad que otros poseen de conversar fácilmente con las personas que jámas han visto. No puedo fingir que me intereso por sus cosas como se acostumbra.
~ Jane Austen
No puedo hacerme a esas conversaciones y fingir que me intereso por sus cosas como se acostumbra.
~ Jane Austen
Im used to being adored, but i have no interest in being adored. If you want me to fall in love with you, ignore me, pique my interest by being completely uninterested.
~ Jane Green
Men haven't changed: they love the thrill of the chase, and if you hand yourself over on a plate they'll lose interest.
~ Jane Green
He was turning out to be one of those men whose interest diminished as they got to know you. You got into this pattern of trying to be interesting by revealing more and more of yourself, like a salesman unpacking his sample bag, but the man, though he looked like he was smiling and paying attention, was really shaking his head internally—not that, not that either, no I don't think so, not today.
~ Jane Smiley
In truth Mr Jonas Silk was as niggardly as he was jealous, and my sister Beatrice had as much interest in Kansas as she did in the czar of all the Russias, and so my brother Mr. Horace Silk worked out his plans in a white heat of frustrated eagerness.
~ Jane Smiley
God is dead, haven't you heard, he died a hundred years ago, gave out from sheer lack of interest, decided to play golf instead.
~ Janet Fitch
there was almost no opinion, however nonsensical, that wasn't tolerated, at least for long enough for it to be delivered. But it wasn't just that, nor his charm nor eccentricity, his sometimes slovenly, sometimes stunning intelligence, that made him so attractive as a tutor; it was the utterly unfamiliar sensation one got, as a student, of his respect for, or at least well-performed interest in, what one thought.
~ Janet Hobhouse
America may be a fallible democracy. But when the president sacrifices the national interest for his personal interest, we can show that unlike other countries, we have a remedy.
~ Tom Malinowski
Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
~ Hans Jonas
My training ground has been my interest in watching movies. Unlike most other directors, I haven't assisted anyone.
~ Sajid Khan
Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.
~ Michael Specter
We don't believe used games are in the best interest of the consumer. We have products that consumers want to hold onto. They want to play all of the levels of a 'Zelda' game and unlock all of the levels.
~ Reggie Fils-Aime
Every sport is trying to unlock the new consumption levels and fan interest by a younger demographic. Of course we love our core fan and everyone does, but every sport is thinking carefully about how to reach the millennial fan to get them excited about their sport.
~ Brian France
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
~ Maeve Binchy
On average, an underserved consumer spends 10% of their disposable income on unnecessary fees and interest rates.
~ Dan Schulman
I would say the first three or four papers on nano-thermoelectricity in bismuth went almost unnoticed, but all of a sudden when Dirac cones came along - pop! - there was huge interest in bismuth-related materials.
~ Mildred Dresselhaus
I know there have been some catastrophically unpopular programmes on television over the years. Has it ever got to the point where the only person still interested in what's happening is the person who's on the telly?
~ James May
I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.
~ Tibor Kalman
I basically like the unpredictability factor. When I watch a film, if it becomes predictable, I lose interest in it.
~ Karthik Subbaraj
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
~ Richard Perle
I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.
~ Gemma Whelan
You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
~ Edward Norton