Interesting Quotes - Page 51

Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

I surround myself with a talented group of people that are opinionated and interesting. I try to remain very open to what others have to say.

Cats are more interesting, let's face it. Dogs are loveable and a bit boring.

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.

It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.

If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, "democracy inevitably leads to Marxism" - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.