“I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.” ThinkingRealSelfInterestingQualityAwarenessConsciousProseTragicSelf ConsciousConscious Awareness Author:China Mieville
“What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.” KindHas BeensSometimesFactsInterestingStudyBecomingConsciousLongingMythConspiracyBecoming MoreMute Book:The Light of Other Days Source: The Light of Other Days
“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.” FeelsStatesActionActorsCausesInterestingActingConsciousnessWatchesMovementConsciousLandscapeTensionDullInternalsResolveEmblems Book:Dhalgren Source: Dhalgren
“It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.” PeopleIfsDoeStillsEndsSometimesGrowsInterestingPartyKnownGoneShapesConsciousTablesHearingAtmospherePleasantFascinatingGuestsClosestRelaxedBathsUnwindClosest FriendsConfidentialDivulge Author:Alice Thomas Ellis
“"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.” KindCharacterMy OwnInterestingCommunicationConsciousDefectsKateInteresting CharactersOpen Communication Book:Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Comfort Edition Source: Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Comfort Edition
“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.” FeelsDreamMemoriesInterestingBrainChildhoodConsciousSubconsciousInteresting ThingsChildhood Memories Author:Akram Khan
“What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscious model of reality that, first, it can contain elements that are not experienced as mind-independent, as unequivocally real, as immediately given, and second, that there is a "gradient of realness" in which one and the same content can be experienced transparently or in an opaque fashion.” PeopleMindFirstsHumansRealRealityGivenInterestingFashionExampleElementsModelsConsciousIndependentFeaturesMost InterestingPhenomenalOpaqueRealness Author:Thomas Metzinger
“I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find myself keeping track of ideas that come along, as probably most writers do, and whatever seems most interesting to me when I flip through my notes before I begin a new story is usually what I will try to write about next.” IfsKnowsWritingTryingIdeasCharacterStoriesSeemsNextInterestingEffortSubjectsConsciousNotesTrackMost InterestingVaryFlip Author:Christine Sneed
“If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.” IfsKnowsHumansAnswersInterestingBrainIdentityReadyConsciousAspectRaisesDefinitionsArguingHandleMapsBe YouTechnologicalVery InterestingNot ReadyHuman Brain Author:Edward Boyden
“I think that fear came from, "Okay, I'm going to have Beyoncé in the title, and people are just going to think, it's Beyoncé poems. It's light and fun." I was kind of super-conscious of that. It's kind of like this weird trick I'm playing, where you're like, "What an interesting, fun cover, and then the name Beyoncé." Then you open it, and it's just about my depression. All of it belongs together.” PeopleThinkingKindLightTogetherNamesFunInterestingConsciousOkayTricksTitles Author:Morgan Parker
“Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my part. It's only recently that that's been pointed out by the media . . . or pointed out by fans. I also find complicated, flawed characters interesting. What's the opposite? To play one-dimensional, boring failures?” CharacterInterestingConsciousFemaleFeministBoringComplicatedFlawed Author:Elisabeth Moss
“I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.” PeopleWayFeelsRealActorsWishInterestingSituationCareersPlansDirectorsConsciousListsScreenwritersCameraman Author:Viggo Mortensen