Best Interesting Times Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878”

Women Photography Quotes Interesting Times Historical Quotes

Book:A Vision of Lucy

Source: A Vision of Lucy

“Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.”

Humor Luck Interesting Times Rincewind Middle Name

Author:Terry Pratchett

“He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.”

Humor Numbers Zero Number Wizard Interesting Times Maths Rincewind 0

Book:Interesting Times

Source: Interesting Times

“Cohen looked at the forest of lances and pennants. Hundreds of thousands of men looked like quite a lot of men when you saw them close to. "I suppose," he said, slowly, "that none of you has got some amazing plan you've been keeping quiet about?" "We thought you had one," said Truckle.”

Humor Plans Battles Interesting Times Sticky Situation

Book:Interesting Times

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“Besides…where Rincewind went’ – he lowered his voice – ‘trouble followed behind.’ Ridcully noticed that the wizards drew a little closer together. ‘Sounds all right to me,’ he said. ‘Best place for trouble, behind.”

Humor Trouble Wizards Interesting Times Rincewind Ridcully

Author:Terry Pratchett

“We are living history," I told my mother breathlessly one night after the radio had been turned off and we sat in complete silence. "I could do with a little less history, thank you," she replied crisply and returned to mending some socks.”

History Interesting Times

Book:Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany

Source: Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany

“I thought this life of thoughtful liberalism was my birthright, too. Before I understood that my generation was to be born in interesting times.”

Life Liberalism Interesting Times After The Apocalypse

Author:Maureen F. McHugh

“The path of the ambitious man was a nightingale floor. One wrong step and it would sing out.”

Ambition Discworld Interesting Times Terry Pratchett

Book:Interesting Times

Source: Interesting Times

“I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.”

Home Grows Interesting Growing Up Safe Blessed Really Interesting Interesting Times

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

“And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.”

People Book Reason Age Young Method University Inns Taverns Vicinity Interesting Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.”

Giving May Ideas Asks Interesting Attention Authority Authenticity Chinese No Idea Curse Phrases Lowest Trilogies Interesting Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.”

Ifs Thinking Interesting Economy Graduates Interesting Times

Author:Ryan Lewis

“I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.”

Kind Interesting Technology Events Communication Extraordinary Squares Egypt Interesting Times Recent Events Tahrir Square

Author:Anne Waldman

“I hope you find what you're looking for.”

Meaningful Gnome Interesting Times

Author:Steve McQueen

“Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.”

Facts Interesting Cameras Starting Filmmaker Digital Very Interesting Edits Great Times Digital Cameras Interesting Times

Author:Michael Pitt

“It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.”

Littles Interesting Class England Structure Starting Interesting Times

Author:Julian Ovenden

“Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.”

Mind Firsts Names Middle Luck Discworld Interesting Times Rincewind Ankh

Book:Interesting Times: Adapted for the Stage by Stephen Briggs

Source: Interesting Times: Adapted for the Stage by Stephen Briggs

“Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.”

Men World Energy Goal Interesting Effort Creative Danger Building Judging Ideals Uncertainty Judged New World Creative Energy Interesting Times

Author:Robert Kennedy

“Macho in a different sense, the kind of things that we think makes us a man. It doesn't really exist right now. I really don't want it to seem that I think it's a problem that women are in development, I don't think it's as problem at all, I just think it's an interesting time that we're in. And maybe long overdue - maybe television for a long time was made for men and it's long overdue.”

Thinking Men Want Kind Long Made Different Problem Seems Interesting Television Development Right Now Long Time Macho Overdue Interesting Times

Author:Edward Allen Bernero

“Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"”

Ifs Happens Would Be Lasts Universe Sound Heard Paper Hats Interesting Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I'm bi-coastal.”

Feels Girl Interesting New York Lucky California Adjusting Coastal Interesting Times California Girls

Author:Taryn Manning

“May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people.”

People May Important Interesting Attention Interesting Times

Author:Eric Frank Russell

“It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".”

Writing Two Interesting Havens England Very Interesting Lennon Interesting Times

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“We'd be recording and I'd go down to Greenpoint where Rostam was living and track stuff... It was a busy time. I felt like in general, I was just super psyched with the prospect of getting to be a musician, that it became a thing that I would think about more than I would think about my studies and stuff like that. I still did fine, but it was an interesting time in my life.”

Thinking Stills Felt Stuff Interesting Study Fine Musician Busy Track Interesting Times

Author:Chris Baio

“In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.”

Ifs Interesting Fashion London Interesting Times

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was stuck in the midst of a lot of change and seemed a bit redundant.”

Thinking Bits Interesting Periods Band Stuck Evolve Midst Redundant Norwegians Interesting Times

Author:Mat McNerney

“The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French accent, or a particular love of opera... or all those other things that people tend to attach to many fictional detectives. He's just an ordinary guy doing an extraordinary job, in a very interesting time.”

People Problem Jobs Guy Interesting Particular Ordinary Extraordinary Opera Accents Very Interesting Detectives Lisp Interesting Times

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime, and racketeering, and all sorts of hangovers from a very difficult time in French history. So it's an interesting time to be a policeman.”

Years Left Difficult Interesting Cities Crime Ten Gun Thirds Paris Very Interesting Difficult Times Policemen Hangover Interesting Places Interesting Times

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“It's nice to know that you're worth something and music really does put that kind of light back into you. Well, it does for me anyway. I've been through some very interesting times in my life and there is certain songs that I go to and I'm like, ok, it's not that bad.”

Knows Wells Kind Doe Light Certain Song Interesting Nice Very Interesting Interesting Times

Author:Joss Stone

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.”

Believe Interesting Careers Just Believe Interesting Times

Author:Steve Martin

“Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.”

Wells May Enjoy Challenges Interesting Most Interesting Public Service Time Of Your Life Interesting Times Challenging Times

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.”

Interesting Singing My Friends Mortality Peter Getting Older Gabriel Springsteen Interesting Times

Author:Sting

“Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.”

Order Found Chaos Defeat Organized Abundance Apocalypse Discworld Interesting Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

Mean Nice Miraculous Discworld Interesting Times Certain Death Sam Vimes

Book:Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)

Source: Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)

“Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.”

Language Four Mercy Forty Scream Discworld Nineteen Interesting Times Rincewind

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.”

Moments Purpose Asks Natural Saws Hero Purpose Of Life Crucial Selection Natural Selection Discworld Interesting Times Crucial Moments

Book:Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)

Source: Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)

“Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the Hunters couldn’t go without getting possessed. It was an interesting time to be Apollite or Daimon. But that was before we discovered civilization and modern conveniences. Before the human world developed enough to where we could exist at night under the pretense of being one of them. Apollites owning businesses and houses. Daimons playing Nintendo. What is this world coming to? (Thanatos)”

“There are interesting times. The game is more fun when you are experimenting. One day yuor great, the next day scatterlog. But your learning. No that's not right. I probably have forgotten more about golf than I will ever learn. What you do is remember some of the things you thought you would never forget.”

Remember Next Games Fun Forget Interesting One Day Golf Forgotten Never Forget Next Day Interesting Times

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.”

Knows Want Should Trying Littles Ideas School Bits Interesting Little Bit High School Okay Scared What You Want No Idea Mature Doing You Interesting Times

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.”

Trusted Madmen Unreliable Advisors Devious Interesting Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.”

Interesting Chinese Thrive Interesting Times

Author:Charles de Lint

“Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'”

Has Beens Lasts Death Lord Magic Ancient Last Words Kill Me Interesting Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.”

Desire Interesting New York Scene Late Standards 80s Really Interesting Interesting Times Virtuoso

Author:Jim Jarmusch