Interesting Quotes - Page 48

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.

I hope being gay isn't the most interesting thing about me.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status.

I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers. None of them seemed too concerned about the plastic realization of their music.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

The biggest challenge and the thing I find most enjoyable about being a designer is taking everything in and assimilating it for your perspective, hopefully making it relevant and interesting to people.