Interesting Quotes

It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

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.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.

I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

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

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.

...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

Money is only interesting for what it lets you do and create.

I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.