May You Live In Interesting Times Quotes

#1. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Jack Kevorkian

#2. I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

Campbell Scott

#3. The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

Kenneth Branagh

#4. There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire.

John Scalzi

#5. I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#6. I discover vision, not as a "thinking about seeing," to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#7. If someone is telling you to live in interesting times, they are basically telling you they want you to die horribly, and to suffer terribly before you do. Seriously, they are not your friend. This is a tip I am giving you for free.

John Scalzi

#8. A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

Karl Kraus

#9. A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

Peter Drury

#10. My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

Gunter Grass

#11. The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.

Adrian McKinty

#13. There is a curse.
They say:
May you live in interesting times.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

Geraldine Brooks

#15. I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

Anne Waldman

#16. Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#17. We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions.

Laura Kipnis

#18. May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people.

Eric Frank Russell

#19. I have a very close relationship with my parents.

Caroline Wozniacki

#20. My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

Shamir

#21. It's a cruel world, don't you think?

Cornelia Funke

#22. Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

Sanya Richards-Ross