Quotes About The Most Interesting Man

#1. You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. - Author: Ian McEwan

#2. Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been. - Author: H.L. Mencken

#3. Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having. - Author: T.H. White

#4. The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. - Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him. - Author: Alexander Smith

#6. Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement. - Author: Charles Bukowski

#7. Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs. - Author: Neil Gaiman

#8. Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly ... remind you of anyone?"
"Yes. Gordon."
"Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you. - Author: Derek Landy

#9. Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille. - Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

#10. Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?' - Author: Chris Pine

#11. The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest. - Author: Victor Hugo

#12. It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized. - Author: Brian Herbert

#13. Can't you see? It's incredibly interesting. Aren't you struck by how much action occurred simply because something went wrong with one man's brain? It's as if the rational world, your world, was a still pond and Petter's brain was a jagged rock thrown into it, creating odd ripples everywhere." The - Author: Jon Ronson

#14. If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Man. God. Roarke.
An interesting and flattering lineup. - Author: J.D. Robb

#16. It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting. - Author: Rod McKuen

#17. Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent. - Author: Ruth Kluger

#18. There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents. - Author: Edwin Percy Whipple

#19. With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill, but there is nothing compelling to do. - Author: Daniel Klein

#20. A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself. - Author: Leo Tolstoy

#21. Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself. - Author: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#22. When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting. - Author: Rita Gelman

#23. All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man. - Author: Marcus Brigstocke

#24. The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. - Author: William Dean Howells

#25. When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy. - Author: Eric Roth

#26. I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening ... - Author: John Dalton

#27. I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference. - Author: Sergio Leone

#28. It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play. - Author: Jesse Plemons

#29. 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. - Author: Pitigrilli

#30. A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. - Author: Thomas Carlyle

#31. He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting. - Author: Shirley Jackson

#32. A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,' Gordon was saying. 'And if a man is not effective, if his very being is as insubstantial as thought, then what is this man? Is he a man? Or is he merely the thought of a man? - Author: Derek Landy

#33. It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears. - Author: Mo Rocca

#34. He had an AM radio playing a conservative talk show. The host was making some very interesting statements about the president. I don't usually pay much attention to politics, but from what the man said, I had to believe that sometime in the recent past the laws regarding sedition must have changed. - Author: Jeff Lindsay

#35. I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people. - Author: Jake Epstein

#36. A man in a nylon bikini, with that little knot sticking out in front, isn't half as interesting as a man in a good-looking business suit. Charlie - Author: Sue Grafton

#37. I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships. - Author: John Fowles

#38. Child: "The Major and the soldiers and Mycroft told me what war is like. They say it's the second worst thing in the world."
Man: "That's an interesting definition. What did they say is the worst thing?"
Child: "Not having anything worth fighting for in the first place. - Author: Ada Palmer

#39. It's very interesting that most of the roles I've gotten are grim, when I'm actually a very well-adjusted man and had a happy upbringing. I guess there are some dark shadows somewhere in there, but I'm a big kid. - Author: Tony Todd

#40. The mark of an intelligent and educated man is one who does not really accept the idea of "work". That is to say; he does not accept the process of doing chores every day, that aren't in the least bit interesting to him, just in order to go on living. - Author: Alan W. Watts

#41. (on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists. - Author: Bertrand Russell

#42. Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. - Author: Kate DiCamillo

#43. A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts. - Author: Helene Wecker

#44. His warning amused her and revealed a hint of his unease in the upcoming meeting. How interesting that a man didn't always admire his own traits in another. - Author: Grace Draven

#45. Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind of contained, rote superhero franchise. - Author: Joss Whedon

#46. The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy. - Author: Malcolm McDowell

#47. Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of. - Author: Richard Whately

#48. Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights ... sexual intercourse! ... His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values. - Author: Mark Twain

#49. You don't find a masked man wielding a gun interesting? Tell me ... what do you find interesting then-Matt Carter - Author: Natasha Larry

#50. A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists. - Author: Bertrand Russell

#51. Will is a very interesting, unique man, and I'll tell you why. He makes love like a woman. He loves to touch, massage and feel. He makes love like he's in touch with himself, who he is. And he's a very sensual, incredible lovemaker. - Author: Jada Pinkett Smith

#52. Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. - Author: Lauren Bacall

#53. Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. - Author: Shana Alexander

#54. Every man has his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. - Author: Josh Billings

#55. The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing. - Author: William James

#56. Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so. - Author: Mark Twain

#57. And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space. - Author: G. M. Trevelyan

#58. The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other. - Author: Sylvester Stallone

#59. To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together. - Author: Jacob Bronowski

#60. The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. - Author: Allan Bloom

#61. I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man. - Author: Richie Sambora

#62. Isn't it interesting, that a black man, who is a Muslim, and has the name 'Muhammad', is the most beloved athlete in the world? - Author: Hamza Yusuf

#63. Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have. - Author: Nancy Gibbs

#64. Man is the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, and not one has strayed more dangerously from its instincts. But for all that, of course, he is the most interesting. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#65. In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. - Author: Fulton Oursler

#66. The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation. - Author: Thomas Jefferson