Interest famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
-- A. N. Wilson -
He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
-- Abu Bakr -
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
-- African Spir -
History is not written in the interests of morality.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.
-- Ahmed Toufiq -
I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
-- Aimee Mullins -
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
-- Alain de Botton -
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
-- Albert Camus -
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.
-- Alex Majoli -
I'm curious about everything--even things that don't interest me.
-- Alex Trebek -
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
-- Alexander Pope -
I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
-- Alton Brown -
There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
-- Amos Lee -
I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.
-- Andy Roddick -
I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.
-- Andy Roddick -
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
-- Angela Merkel -
After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
-- Anibal Cavaco Silva -
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror
-- Anish Kapoor -
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.
-- Ansel Elgort -
In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.
-- Arlene Francis -
It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.
-- Arne Glimcher -
You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
If children have interests then education happens.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
-- Arthur Nielsen -
I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
-- Ashley Judd -
For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart
-- Audrey Hepburn -
I tell the stories that are of interest to me.
-- Ava DuVernay -
I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.
-- Aziz Ansari -
When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
-- Barry Zito -
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.
-- Ben Casnocha -
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest
-- Berenice Bejo -
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
-- Bernard Bailyn -
Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
-- Bernard Crick -
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
-- Bertrand Piccard -
Dior really was a savior. He almost single-handedly revived women's interest in clothes.
-- Bill Blass -
...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
-- Bill Moyers -
I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.
-- Bill Rodgers -
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
-- Blaise Pascal -
The people that are surrounding me have my best interest.
-- Blake Griffin -
I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.
-- Bob Paisley -
Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
-- Bob Ross -
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
-- Bob Woodward -
I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
-- Bobby Flay -
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
-- Boris Johnson -
Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power
-- Boyd Rice -
Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.
-- Brandon Boyd -
My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.
-- Brian Eno -
A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
-- Brian Tracy -
I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.
-- Bryant Gumbel -
The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.
-- Burt Rutan -
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Good and evil both increase at compound interest.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
-- Calvin Trillin -
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
-- Cara Delevingne -
A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder.
-- Carl Icahn -
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.
-- Carol Bellamy -
There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
-- Carol Moseley Braun -
I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.
-- Caroline Wozniacki -
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
-- Carolyn Wells -
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
-- Carter Burwell -
self-interest usually brings injustice with it.
-- Catherine the Great -
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
-- Cato the Elder -
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
-- Cesare Pavese -
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
-- Charles Bukowski -
People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
-- Charles Frazier -
The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
-- Charles Macklin -
I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me,
-- Chris Marker -
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
-- Chris Marker -
Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.
-- Chris Tucker -
Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.
-- Christopher Golden -
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
-- Cindy Sherman -
Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please their seller. The interest of the buyer is forgotten
-- Claude C. Hopkins -
I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money..
-- Clive Palmer -
I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.
-- Clive Palmer -
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
-- Cornelius Vanderbilt -
A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.
-- Crispin Glover -
The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.
-- Dalai Lama -
Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
-- Dale Carnegie -
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
-- Dan Brown -
The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
-- Dan Quayle -
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
-- Dana Snyder
