Piqued My Interest Quotes

#1. I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

Ian Doescher

#2. I hadn't taken to the colonel, yet he had piqued my interest. You can be fascinated even by a tree frog if you watch it long enough. I was savoring the first drops of the poison that would carry us all to perdition.

Umberto Eco

#3. When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

Karin Slaughter

#4. I had never been in love before Abby, and no one had even piqued my interest since. My life was the woman standing before me, and the family we'd made together.

Jamie McGuire

#5. My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

Wentworth Miller

#6. You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

William Cowper

#8. The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

Philip Warren Anderson

#9. I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

John Rowland

#10. Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca.

#11. Sophisticated meditative disciplines, healing practices, cognitive and emotional trainings, conflict resolution techniques - he used them all to awaken his visitors to their own qualities of integrity, equanimity, gratitude, and forgiveness.

Jack Kornfield

#12. When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman Polanski, my interest level was very piqued. I was very excited and pleased to get such an offer from Mr. Roman Polanski.

Pierce Brosnan

#13. You have the capacity to pursue your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a common knowledge is already there. The silence bound them as no words ever could.

Jack Schaefer

#15. It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.

Jenny Han

#16. But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

William Kunstler

#17. Be great, make the best life for your family!

Soulja Boy

#18. Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.

Saint Francis De Sales

#19. The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.

John J. Stephens