Mildly Interesting Quotes

#1. We seldom notice how each day is a holy place Where the eucharist of the ordinary happens, Transforming our broken fragments Into an eternal continuity that keeps us.

John O'Donohue

#2. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person

Oscar Wilde

#3. Always been, and the safety of the Republic would be assured. This was a presumption buried deep in the soul of every Roman.

Tom Holland

#4. Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing ...

Celia Fremlin

#5. I wouldn't do this if i didn't care, but you mean everything to me, and if this is what you need, then this is what you'll get. But we're damned well going to work on changing this association between caring and spanking.

Cherise Sinclair

#6. They were nice, friendly people, and they invited us to share their fire and drink a cup of rancid butter tea with them.

Heinrich Harrer

#7. I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.

Juliet Marillier

#8. Luna didn't seem perturbed by Ron's rudeness; on the contrary, she simply watched him for a while as though he were a mildly interesting television programme.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Someone once used that precise same line on me

Jonathan Friesen

#10. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Mark Twain

#11. We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!

Josh Hutcherson

#12. There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

#13. What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

Vivian Gornick

#14. Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

Eva Brann

#15. To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

#16. The only paths you can't travel are the ones you block yourself--so don't let the fear of failure stop you from trying in the first place.

William Ritter

#17. Belong to a religion? Doesn't bother me if you do, as long as it's not one that says to stop thinking and be loud about it.

Tim Dorsey