Interesting Lives Quotes

#1. Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.

Darin Strauss

#2. I always think out a problem as clearly as possible, and then act on it. My theory has always been to get started. The moment I get an idea I act upon it. If only people would act on more of their ideas, I am convinced they would lead more interesting lives.

Dorothy Draper

#3. We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen. Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely.

Don DeLillo

#4. People lead their real, most interesting lives under cover of secrecy

William Boyd

#5. A friend of a friend . . ." Have you ever noticed that our friends' friends have much more interesting lives than our friends themselves?

Chip Heath

#6. The forager economy provided most people with more interesting lives than agriculture or industry

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

Marcia Muller

#8. 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.

Annie Lennox

#9. My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

Lucille Kallen

#10. dull - she did not, with equal longing, wish to be a part of the whispering spinster chorus at the edge of other, more interesting lives. She

Alice McDermott

#11. Rather than see ageing as a reason to contract, we should view it as an opportunity to expand. We should make each year of our lives are more interesting than the one before.

Srinivas Rao

#12. One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.

Susanna Kearsley

#13. It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives.

Scott Speedman

#14. Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.

Ann Patchett

#15. My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Robert Crais

#16. It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters.

P.D. James

#17. And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like 'People' and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.

Alex Pettyfer

#18. History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.

Dexter Perkins

#19. It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

Alison Moyet

#20. Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.

James Spader

#21. Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants ... I wish it would do more interesting things!

Russell Brand

#22. PREVENTING TOO MANY ACTIVITIES The third quality of being a dharmic person is very interesting: it's the idea that we don't need to churn up a lot of things for us to do. We can simplify our lives through our body, speech, and mind. To

Lodro Rinzler

#23. In the old days,' he said, 'writers' lives were more interesting than their writing. Now-a-days neither their lives nor the writing is interesting.

Charles Bukowski

#24. There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

Seanan McGuire

#25. I've lived almost, like, four completely different lives. (Stripping) was just one section - one little small section, if that - but it was a very interesting and turbulent but kind of wild ride and I'm not ashamed of it all. I think it's hilarious and I learned a lot about human nature.

Channing Tatum

#26. With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

John Robinson

#27. Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

Deborah Moggach

#28. Before 'Cagney and Lacey,' we didn't follow officers home to find out what they did when they took their badges off and emptied their guns. So the idea that these women also had lives outside of work was really interesting to play.

Tyne Daly

#29. Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

Donald Miller

#30. I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

A. Scott Berg

#31. Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.

John Holt

#32. I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

Mike Crapo

#33. Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

Hortense Odlum

#34. Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.

Denise Vasi

#35. Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

Paul Auster

#36. I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

Brian Eno

#37. Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language into people's space. Because there is something deep inside of us that responds to cared for language, whether it's literary, poetry, or really good lyrics in a song.

Teju Cole

#38. People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

Robert Pattinson

#39. Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary people. There, I said it. The worst thing a 21st-century child of interesting parents could be: ordinary. Like us.

Heather Choate Davis

#40. And realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and what's so interesting, what makes them beautiful, is the fact that none of them last.

Joe Meno

#41. We're past the age of heroes and hero kings ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

John Updike

#42. Just knowing that there's somebody else out there - that what's happened on this planet has also happened in many other places - that might change our lives in a very subtle way, but it's interesting to know and worth looking for.

Seth Shostak

#43. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you wanna do with your life; the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

Baz Luhrmann

#44. I find the reality of our emotional lives interesting.

Annette Bening

#45. It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

Bill Condon

#46. Our lives look a lot more interesting when they're filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

Jonathan Franzen

#47. By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

Rogier Van Der Heide

#48. I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up. It's interesting territory for fiction.

K.M. Soehnlein

#49. I look for interesting titles that are curious and make people think. A lot of people are always so caught up in their lives. But if I make them smile through my titles or provoke them a little bit then maybe they will think about things and read the book and take something away from it.

Robin Sharma

#50. Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...

Ellen Glasgow

#51. An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people.

Oscar Arias

#52. All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Mavis Gallant

#53. The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely hearbeat of my own

Ruth Sepetys

#54. I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment that makes them think.

Jim Caviezel

#55. It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.

Cheryl Strayed

#56. Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

Charles Wheelan

#57. Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Gertrude Stein

#58. I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

Sting

#59. There is an interesting idea: almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.

Clint Eastwood

#60. Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

Anton Chekhov

#61. It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.

Terry Pratchett

#62. I think that's what makes David Ayer really interesting. He likes to make a tough-y movie, but actually he's a character director. He's fascinated by the actual people who decide to have these jobs and the way it affects their lives.

Mireille Enos

#63. There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.
But if the above whipped your mind into a frenzy, here's something even more interesting: Fang started a blog. Not that he's self-absorbed or trendy or anything. Nope, not him.

James Patterson

#64. It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

John Irving

#65. We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

Noah Baumbach

#66. I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

Yo-Yo Ma

#67. My dream guests are really not so much celebrities. They're people who are actually interesting and they're doing something interesting with their lives or had an interesting experience in some way. I really enjoy talking to regular, everyday people.

Ellen DeGeneres

#68. The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

James Blunt

#69. I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

Edward Zwick

#70. Here's an interesting little notion. Did you realize that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?

Douglas Adams

#71. 'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

Jennifer Egan

#72. Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Salman Rushdie

#73. I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy.

Lisa Loeb

#74. Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

Douglas Coupland

#75. Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

W.P. Kinsella

#76. It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

Lamar Alexander

#77. I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

Channing Tatum

#78. But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing ... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

Mark Ruffalo

#79. No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence ... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.

Thomas Huxley

#80. If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

Vera Brittain

#81. I saw a lot of drugs and strange things when I was younger, but I also think it was a positive experience because I was surrounded by these really interesting, beautiful people that were trying to get their lives back on track.

Tamaryn

#82. [Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.

Martin Short

#83. It's interesting to see these lives from places I may never go unfold on screen.

Paz Vega

#84. A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

Tom Stoppard

#85. I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.

Penn Jillette

#86. Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.

Amanda Donohoe

#87. Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

Pierre Soulages

#88. I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

Lisa McMann

#89. I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms.

David Levithan

#90. When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

Fran Lebowitz

#91. We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?

Noah Boyd

#92. I leapt eagerly into books. The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

Ruta Sepetys

#93. Nothing was easy. Every move, each decision, a matter of life and death. It made for interesting times. Small human lives were so limited. And for that very reason, so fascinating. Shadowed by death, life became immediate. Intense.

Karen Marie Moning

#94. Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

Maureen F. McHugh

#95. The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Matthew Macfadyen

#96. Within minutes a small crowd had gathered: what could be more interesting than other people's lives?

Neel Mukherjee

#97. What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#98. Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good - they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving them a fair chance as characters can create some interesting shades of gray - and shades of gray are also a part of life.

Stephen King

#99. Their laughter seemed to have turned into low whispering now. It never ceases to amaze me, the things they find interesting, amusing or unusual. I can only assume they've led very sheltered lives.

Gail Honeyman

#100. There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.

Rob Lowe