Quotes About Interest

There was that same sense of being surrounded by the sleeping inhabitants of a waking world he had no interest in visiting or knowing, of dull business temporarily suspended, of futility and repetition soon to wake again.

In an article I once wrote on Picnic, I compared a play to a journey, in which every moment should be as interesting as the destination.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

But certain difficulties lay in his way if he were himself to lead the counterrevolution, and he was not much interested in it unless he was.

I have some gold. I will interest you. Pity me. I beg you to help me.

Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamored with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.

And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid—the thought of getting their alembics on which made the city's alchemists whine like dogs—was provoking more and more interest from London's repo-men and -women.

It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.

Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamoured with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.

punch line: The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don't yet care about and something they do care about.

In Bangladesh, millions survive on pennies a day. With little access to banks, they're forced to pay outrageous interest rates (100% a year or more) whenever they need to access money.

It will come as no surprise that one reliable way of making people care is by invoking self-interest.

The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don't yet care about and something they do care about. We

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai ' 'Legends of the Fall ' 'Blood Diamond ' 'Glory.'

He was a lonely man, but he had long since reconciled himself to loneliness. Marriage required concessions which he was not prepared to make. He would have had to sacrifice time to small talk and to take an interest in things that bored him stiff. Marriage

But Walter was only interested in what Nina was carrying. She was the one with the food.

He gave her a quick hug. Hugging was new for them. Ever since he'd been the paramedic on call the night she was shot, he'd "taken a new interest in your survival," as he liked to put it.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Life's small details are the ones that interest me, anyway. The big questions are too hard to parse.