Top 100 Something Interesting Quotes
#1. 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.
Terry Pratchett
#2. You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data.
John Braddock
#4. No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'
Sophia Loren
#5. I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.
Michelle Rodriguez
#6. In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.
Rutger Hauer
#7. It's really about living in your head ... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
Lucinda Williams
#8. There's always constantly interesting things to do, and who knows, maybe I will be a good sculptor. I haven't decided what I am going to do next, but I am not going to quit just because I did something interesting.
Chris Hadfield
#9. That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.
Hans Matheson
#10. The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say.
Sarah Vowell
#11. It says something interesting that when porn stars dress up, they do so more tastefully than non-porn stars.
Anonymous
#12. I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.
Kara Swisher
#13. I try to read and write something interesting every day.
Dave Vizard
#14. I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it.
Stephen Colbert
#15. Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.
Kylie Bax
#16. Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
Seth Godin
#17. If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we'll have a unique song by the end of it.
Kacey Musgraves
#18. I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#19. But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.
Julian Coolidge
#20. I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.
David Sanborn
#21. Paris Hilton said something interesting to me once: she said, 'I just tell everyone what they want to hear, and I do what I want to do.'
Simon Rex
#22. My dream guests are really not so much celebrities. They're people who are actually interesting and they're doing something interesting with their lives or had an interesting experience in some way. I really enjoy talking to regular, everyday people.
Ellen DeGeneres
#23. You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
Lily Tomlin
#24. Nobody wants to know what I'm doing 24 hours a day, they'd be painfully bored, trust me. At the same time, if I'm doing something interesting or funny, I like being able to share that with my fans.
Josh Duhamel
#25. Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that's a great compliment for us.
Ilie Nastase
#26. But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.
Ben Bradlee
#27. I appreciate art in any form. So it applies to clothes as well. On stage, I think people prefer me in Indian outfits ... in fact, it goes with the kind of songs I sing as well. Indianness in the form of a sari, or a chaniya choli or jeans with something interesting, matches my style of singing.
Shreya Ghoshal
#28. We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
George Wald
#29. I felt a sense of anticipation of being on the verge of something interesting.
Paula McLain
#30. You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.
Jack Dorsey
#31. He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.
Audrey Niffenegger
#32. No problem is so intractable that something interesting cannot be said about it.
Jeffrey Lagarias
#33. I've played a lot of cops and a lot of bad guys, so I would like to play a regular person and just live a regular life with something interesting about it. I love the idea of television and kind of infiltrating that.
Reggie Lee
#34. Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
Richard Linklater
#35. He was under the impression that he belonged wherever there was something interesting to see.
William, Saroyan
#36. People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.
Linus Torvalds
#37. A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself over time. That you can always find something interesting in the more you listen to it - it keeps revealing something to you.
Bryce Dessner
#38. When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B.F. Skinner
#39. I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.
Lana Del Rey
#40. The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctor's surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they have something interesting to think about.
John Mortimer
#41. Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?"
"Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114
Cassandra Clare
#42. There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.
Evan Osnos
#43. It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.
Tom Selleck
#44. I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#45. All the young designers now are doing something interesting.
Lazaro Hernandez
#46. So we went to the Zoo; & I daresay I could write something interesting about that
a pale stone desert given over to charwomen & decorators: a few bears, a mandrill, & a fox or two
all in the desolation of depression.
Virginia Woolf
#47. I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.
Taika Waititi
#48. Don't find work, find an interest and do it with love. If you can earn a living doing something interesting, then you will never have to work.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.
Morgan Freeman
#50. You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.
David Meerman Scott
#51. I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.
Andy Warhol
#52. Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.
Carole King
#53. I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
Bob Odenkirk
#54. I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.
Tony Hsieh
#55. Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.
Georg Cantor
#56. Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
Gary Neville
#57. I've discovered something interesting," she said. "If you ever want to avoid somebody, this city's as small as a postage stamp. But if you ever really want to run into somebody, if you really hope and pray, it's as big as an ocean.
John Burnham Schwartz
#58. There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.
Louis Armstrong
#59. I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail and there's too much to do. I do think it's really important to have time to yourself, whether that's reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#60. If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.
Rian Johnson
#61. Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece of clay into something interesting and beautiful.
Monika Pardon
#62. To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.
Meghan Daum
#63. There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.
Amy Heckerling
#64. People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.
James Cameron
#65. There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.
Josh Hutcherson
#66. What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.
Ani DiFranco
#67. When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.
Jessica De Gouw
#68. People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#69. I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.
Gemma Ward
#70. Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.
Donald Miller
#71. There's always something interesting about comedy teams that have the exact same energy. The one time I really noticed that was Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in 'Step Brothers.'
Scott Aukerman
#72. We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That led me to think about ways of developing further the Aschenbach-Mahler connection.
Philip Kitcher
#74. The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.
Charlie Kaufman
#75. Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.
George Balanchine
#76. It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way ... Sometimes people are just really nasty.
Paul Bloom
#77. I told you why. If I don't do it now, I never will. I'll just be some office drone ten years from
now, wishing I had done something interesting at least once in my life.
Joe Meno
#78. No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
David Nicholls
#79. If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.
Victoria Legrand
#80. I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.
Liz Goldwyn
#81. I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
Josh Hartnett
#82. Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
Maggie Cheung
#83. Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?
Barbara Hillary
#84. My rule has been that you can always find something interesting in every woman that you wouldn't find in any other.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#85. Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
Damien Hirst
#86. The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#87. I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#88. A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.
Marshall Curry
#89. Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.
Alfie Allen
#90. To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place ... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliot Erwitt
#91. I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?
Mary Roach
#92. Get the parents out of the way and then something interesting can happen.
Rick Riordan
#94. The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.
Ed Asner
#95. There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.
Herb Alpert
#96. If everyone's looking at me, I might as well say something interesting.
Stella Young
#97. It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.
Paula Poundstone
#98. When you look at a character and you're like, "Wow, that's really unexplored terrain for me and there's a lot happening here and different angles to him," and you're not sure what his motives are, you've got a good shot at working towards something interesting.
Hoon Lee
#99. Abe said something interesting. He said that because everyone's so poor these days, the '90s will be a decade with no architectural legacy or style- everyone's too poor to put up new buildings. He said that code is the architecture of the '90s.
Douglas Coupland
#100. I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Kara Walker
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