“There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.” PlayHappensFeltInterestingSpecialExampleDrinkUniversalThings HappenProportionIrelandSpecial Things Author:Ed O'Brien
“Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.” MenShouldHas BeensDoneInterestingWrittenSubjectsTalentExampleAcceptedChosenSpiteSetupsGershwin Author:George Gershwin
“Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.” FilmLiteratureInterestingCenturyExampleReaderTruth IsEvolveGenreAccomplished20th CenturyCastlesGothicMost InterestingGloomySinisterStoker Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended. One will not get anywhere in graph theory by sitting in an armchair and trying to understand graphs better. Neither is it particularly necessary to read much of the literature before tackling a problem: it is of course helpful to be aware of some of the most important techniques, but the interesting problems tend to be open precisely because the established techniques cannot easily be applied.” TryingImportantEndsProblemCoursesLiteratureInterestingExampleObjectsTheorySittingMathematicsTechniqueHelpfulSpectrumTacklingArmchairsGraphs Author:Timothy Gowers
“In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.” PhilosophyLiteratureInterestingPrinciplesExamplePhilosophical Author:Mason Cooley
“Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.” NeedsFirstsMightGrowsParentInterestingBehindsAcceptingRolesGenerationsStageExampleConnectionsComplexesSeparationPassagesGrandparentDriftingMentoring Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.” IfsKnowsWorldKindIdeasWarStoriesHappensGamesStarsInterestingFictionTalkingLordExampleScience FictionRingsAliensFantasticCinemaPreciseRobotsRules Of The GameScience Love Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.” InterestingMagicExampleCreatingMetaphorProse Author:Francesca Lia Block
“French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.” ThinkingTryingStillsShowsInterestingPowerfulExampleCinemaVery InterestingVery PowerfulEmulateFrench Cinema Author:Louis Leterrier
“Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is very interesting and important because he was also a metaphysician. He knew a great deal about what was, for him, contemporary science. He was very much influenced by Isaac Newton, for example. There are planets and meteors and so on showing up in his hymns very often. But, again, the scale of his religious imagination corresponds to a very generously scaled scientific imagination.” ImportantCoursesImaginationReligiousInterestingDealsCenturyExamplePlanetsTraditionScalesContemporaryVery InterestingNewtonHymnsShowing UpIsaacMeteors Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.” ThinkingWantFeelsArtInterestingEmotionPiecesExampleArt IsContemporaryOur TimeMainstreamReally Interesting Author:Luis Gonzalez
“I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working for American studios, and was handed the Ladies Home Journal and asked to adapt the stories for the screen. He found ways to use his artistry to make them interesting and nuanced, while critiquing American values in the process.” KnowsWayStoriesUseHomeFilmArtistValuesFoundBitsProcessInterestingStyleExampleIntellectualTheaterStudiosScreensBackgroundsDefinedJournalBiographiesArtistryAmerican Values Author:Todd Haynes
“I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.” ThinkingWritingInterestingExampleWarriorNativeImmigrantsSpeakersMost InterestingDrearyBinaryWoman Warrior Author:Junot Diaz
“What's really interesting, though, is that some people in the Messirya are starting to see Darfuri rebels - so non-Arab, [from the] Justice and Equality Movement - have moved over into Southern Kordofan, which is supposed to be a Messirya stronghold, and started recruiting Messirya to go and fight against the Khartoum government in Darfur. Just another example of how everything in Sudan is interlinked.” PeopleGovernmentFightingJusticeInterestingExampleMovementMovedStartingSupposed To BeSouthernRebelReally InterestingEquality And JusticeSudanStrongholdsDarfur Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children are often told in The Arabian Nights, "This man likes to abduct boys, be careful of him." These issues are explored through the medium of the stories, but actually the architecture of the book is such that there are many examples of women who are loyal, brave, devoted - especially to their lovers.” MenWellsChildrenBookStoriesNightInterestingBoysIssuesExampleLoversHusbandTraditionBraveWesternMalesCarefulArchitectureLikesTalesMediumsRangeFairyBe CarefulFairy TaleLoyalDevotedArabianArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The Prince of the Black Islands." She's a beautiful young woman, and she has turned her husband into stone from the waist down. A traveling sultan finds him, in his dreadful state, and the man petrified from the waist down tells his sad story...how his wife comes every afternoon and beats him until the blood runs down. She's just unwontedly, arbitrarily cruel.” MenBookStatesStoriesRunningBeautifulYoungBlackInterestingWifeBloodWorstExampleHe ManHusbandBeatsStonesViolentIslandsAfternoonYoung WomenSad StorySorceress Author:Marina Warner
“The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't know much about him. He seems to be a guy who was in touch with something deeper than most people around him were and someone who was very concerned with trying to communicate that.” PeopleKnowsTryingCharacterSeemsWould BeGuyJesusInterestingExampleObjectsConcernedHistoricalObviousCommunicateDeeperFascination Author:Brad Warner
“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