Best loses & interest Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'”

Thinking Wells Kind Children Guy Parent Interest Loses Five Brother Pressure Load Eldest

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.”

Interest Loses Criticism Flying

Author:Burt Rutan

“I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.”

Ifs Kind Song Interest Loses Simple Levels Flow Currents Impression Hiccups

Author:Gillian Welch

“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.”

“Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?”

Years War States President Interest Loses Fire Minutes Security Policy Cold Weapons Response Nuclear Russia Warning Nuclear Weapons Cold War National Security Seventeen Nuclear Bomb

Author:Sam Nunn

“I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.”

People Giving Kind Age Certain Interest Loses Trouble Giving Up

Author:John Mellencamp

“Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.”

Age Grows Interest Loses Wonder Mankind Accustomed

Author:Jose Saramago

“The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality and will lose its 'punch' when topical concerns move on to other interests.”

Art Today Moving Interest Loses Concern Driven Contemporary Contemporary Art

Author:Scott Kahn

“Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.”

Ifs Writing Trying Littles Done Song Interest Hours Loses Forget Half Waste Take Me Forget It Little Time

Author:Bernie Taupin

“Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.”

People Needs Years Believe I Believe Interest Loses Spouse Interest In Life

Author:Billy Graham

“I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.”

Sometimes Character Interest Loses Animal Tree

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.”

Humans Long Moving Interest Loses Mystery Human Nature Pondering

Book:P Is for Peril

Source: P Is for Peril

“A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.”

Ifs Men Needs Earth Social Interest Loses Religious Feet Economic Mankind Six Concern Permit Arteries

Author:Josephus Daniels

“Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.”

Firsts Made Stories Happens Film Certain Interest Loses Subtle Highways Influential

Author:Imtiaz Ali

“When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.”

Way Easy Interest Loses Self Interest

Author:Richard Marx

“The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.”

World Heart Has Beens Moments Felt Voice Interest Loses Growing Atheism Danger Return My Heart Harder Positive Atheism Heavenly That Moment Sirens

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.”

Way Giving May Sometimes Helping Bigs Energy Interest Loses Habit Easier Majors Stress Transformation Excitement Minors Insignificant Authentic Happiness Major Change Under Stress

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.”

Ifs Values Interest Loses Pleasure Opinion Judging Offers Productions

Book:The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals

Source: The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals

“When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.”

Doe Ends Lost Interest Loses Race Feminism Racism Gender Opposition Sexism Patriarchy Race And Gender

Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.”

Ifs Men Interest Loses Poor Five Security Six Village Rooted Smallest Poor Man

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.”

Self Lost Interest Loses Virtue Sea Rivers Self Interest

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.”

World Want War Guy Turns Interest Loses Theory Comfortable Good Things Conquer Wheels Pads Gals

Author:Frank Sinatra

“I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.”

Book Left Interest Loses Rooms Minutes Hotel Airplane Hotel Rooms

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.”

Ifs Mind Mean Would Be Sports Interest Loses Race Phones Chiefs Executives Principal Phone Calls Sponsors Chief Executives

Author:Ron Dennis

“The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.”

People Thinking World Art Interest Loses Talking Track Art World

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.”

Long Done Whole Political Father Interest Loses Struggle Seeing Generations Happened New York Possibility Long Time China Damage Just Being Life Struggle Political Struggle

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart; one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Heart Stories Energy Interest Loses Opinion Cutting Dangerous Ought Add Finished Needs And Wants Telling Your Story

Author:Donna Tartt

“Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.”

Fighting Interest Loses Citizens Mud Trough

Author:James Poniewozik

“I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.”

People Needs Should Done Interest Water Loses Lord Holy Mass Devil Meetings Bourgeois Holy Water Interest In Life

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.”

Knows Way Want Interest Loses Too Much

Author:William Matthews

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