Of Interest Quotes

You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

There's usually a few people who are like, "Say... what would that look like on our channel?" Interest can be expressed without directly expressing interest.

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

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.

My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

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.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

What we're trying to do is determine if our shareholders and customers have been misled. We can't think of a single shareholder who would believe that the PSC order isn't in their best interest.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the opportunity to job shadow someone in a role that is of interest to me.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

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.

The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.

Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] himself in the interview with "The New York Times" says there is no law that governs conflict of interest in - with the president.

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

We still go out and elect people who we think are going to govern and better our interests. So we may not have the same confidence in the people we elect, but we still go out and elect them.

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.