Top 100 Quotes About Interesting Things
#1. Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
Terry Pratchett
#2. I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.
Per Petterson
#3. I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#4. My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things than my conscious part can ever dream of.
Akram Khan
#5. A] One is in a different place, so the protective barriers no longer exist. To begin with this can be alarming, but soon one gets used to it and starts understanding how many interesting things there are beyond the walls of one's garden.
Paulo Coelho
#6. I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
David Attenborough
#7. I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
Al Alvarez
#8. My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#9. 'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.
Tom Stoppard
#10. The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.
Harvey Fierstein
#11. Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
Gary Oldman
#12. Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
Gerhard Richter
#13. Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence
Salman Rushdie
#14. Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.
Ariel Levy
#15. Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
Adam Driver
#16. Do interesting things and interesting things will happen to you.
John Hegarty
#17. I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.
David Foster Wallace
#18. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
Daniel J. Boorstin
#19. I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.
Anton Du Beke
#20. I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.
Jessica Biel
#21. People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
Jimmy Wales
#22. I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.
Rob Lowe
#23. People have interesting things to say and you're only going to learn from different people's experience and knowledge.
Ed Speleers
#24. I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.'s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn't been done before.
Amar Bose
#25. One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
Meg Rosoff
#26. I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.
Robert Polidori
#27. The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.
David Bentley Hart
#28. It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.
Alison Bechdel
#29. I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
Jerry Robinson
#30. So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.
Emma Stone
#31. I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.
Genevieve Bell
#32. I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.
Donald Norman
#33. I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.
Robert Heinecken
#34. Interesting things happen in the dark ... sometimes.
L.J.Smith
#35. Make the time to be scared of more interesting things
Merlin Mann
#36. The only really interesting things about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart.
Polly Horvath
#37. I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.
Thomas Heatherwick
#38. It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
Jesse Williams
#39. I got time to myself. I think about things."
"Yes. Clearly you do. Interesting things."
"I spose everybody thinks about 'em."
He laughed. "Right. But that's interesting, too.
Marilynne Robinson
#40. The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting things, and for speaking well.
Pamela Druckerman
#41. My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.
Betty White
#42. There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.
Petula Clark
#43. Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.
Lemony Snicket
#44. I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.
Henry Petroski
#45. The thing about sleeping is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. Complete waste of time
Jennifer Niven
#46. I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.
Phil Collins
#47. Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing
with the air.
Tom Waits
#48. 'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.
Zach Galifianakis
#49. There is no guaranteed formula. And that's one of the interesting things about filmmaking. You could put $115 million in, and it doesn't guarantee success.
Michelle Yeoh
#50. If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
Emma Thompson
#51. 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
#52. I heard some interesting things about your performance up here."
"I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.
Richelle Mead
#53. There's lots of interesting things in books. And you get to meet people you might never know otherwise.
Kiki Hamilton
#54. A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.
Michael Pitt
#55. You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.
Molly Crabapple
#56. I read (and copied into my Interesting Things I Have Heard notebook)
Matthew Quick
#57. Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet or musician, an inventor or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#58. I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen them, my mind has been blown - in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people that the world doesn't know anything about. I'm like a kid in a candy store - it's an idea factory.
Tony Fadell
#59. But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.
Alex Winter
#60. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
Diana Wynne Jones
#61. Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.
N.K. Jemisin
#62. He grabbed my chin, pulling me towards him. 'In my dreams,' he told me, his voice still as hard and cold as an iceberg, 'more interesting things happen. Things that involve the two of us'.
Robert Thier
#63. How uninteresting interesting things can become.
Robert Walser
#64. If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.
Sean Parker
#65. Many interesting things have been observed with neuroimaging machines. Synapses firing, electrical charges, patterns. Sparks. The big bang (birth of a thought) perhaps?
It will be most interesting to observe new information around this subject in the future.
Cheri Bauer
#66. The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'
Emmett Shear
#67. Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
Beck
#68. This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.
Geena Davis
#70. It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.
Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
#71. You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.
Kristen Stewart
#72. One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.
Woody Allen
#73. I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.
Paget Brewster
#74. We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.
Bruce Johnston
#75. No, that's because there are more interesting things to do."
Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies"
Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.
Alane Ferguson
#76. An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.
Bruce Springsteen
#77. One of the most interesting things, at least for me, are the soundtracks for 'The Social Network' and 'Drive.' Basically, it's what I did in 'American Gigolo.' I could have done the music for those movies blindfolded. And one of them won an Oscar, and the other is this massive soundtrack.
Giorgio Moroder
#78. Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!
John Templeton
#79. I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
P. J. O'Rourke
#80. Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.
Maxine Cheshire
#81. I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at.
Robbie Robertson
#82. If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable.
James Salter
#83. And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
Lisa See
#84. I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
Jack Kerouac
#85. My favorite app is 'StumbleUpon,' because it just gives you interesting things that are sometimes exactly the stuff I'm interested in and sometimes just silly and funny.
Christine Quinn
#86. I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#87. Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
Walt Disney
#88. Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
Steve Lacy
#89. Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.
David Attenborough
#90. Wasn't he approaching Ricardo Montalban? Probably because there were more interesting things in heaven than Ricardo Montalban.
B.J. Novak
#91. Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to share, whether it's by creating video games, computer art or sharing exciting Web sites.
Seymour Papert
#92. Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.
Saul Bass
#93. Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all.
But holes are interesting things.
Augusten Burroughs
#95. A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations of the same theme.
Pitigrilli
#96. I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.
April Bowlby
#97. The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
Iris Murdoch
#98. I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.
Jason Wu
#99. I've always made a point of playing parts where weight has nothing to do with it, and not just weight but looks. It's about being funny and being interesting, and I think there are a lot more interesting things to play than being overweight.
Sarah Baker
#100. Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.
Abbas Kiarostami
