“Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.” HumansSaidInterestingGoes OnHuman LifeVery InterestingDiariesInteresting Things Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.” NeedsPlayInterestingDirectorsInstrumentsWorkersCommandArchitectComposerVery InterestingCommanders Author:Santiago Calatrava
“When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against Indian culture. They are also saying, you Westernized, elite, English-speaking people are having too much of a good time. It's a very interesting phenomenon.” PeopleBookFilmCultureInterestingToo MuchShotsIndianGood TimesPhenomenonElitesVery InterestingIndian CultureEnglish Speaking Author:Arundhati Roy
“India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.” InterestingIndiaGenuineOppositionFormalVery InterestingInteresting Places Author:Arundhati Roy
“It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!” Has BeensHardInterestingCitiesIndustryOilPunishmentDestroyedFloodVery InterestingLouisianaPulpitOil Industry Author:Margaret Atwood
“Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.” PurposeInterestingWeaknessAccidentsPhrasesVery InterestingDemonstrating Author:Rick Warren
“You think that sense of humor goes as far as our ideology. I think that ultimately, we have we have very interesting reactions on our show. People are constantly saying, "I love your-your show is so funny, until you made a joke about global warming, which is a serious issue, and I can't believe you did that. And I am never watching your show again."” PeopleThinkingBelieveMadeI CanShowsInterestingIssuesLove YouSeriousJokesReactionsIdeologyGlobal WarmingSense Of HumorVery InterestingSay I Love YouSerious Issues Author:Jon Stewart
“I know that my job is to perform, it wouldn't be a very interesting show if I just came out one day and said, "I'm going to sit here in a ball and rock back and forth. And won't you join me for a half hour of sadness."” IfsKnowsSaidShowsJobsHoursInterestingHalfSadnessRocksOne DayBallsVery InterestingBack And ForthHalf Hours Author:Jon Stewart
“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.” KnowsWellsKindDoeLightCertainSongInterestingNiceVery InterestingInteresting Times Author:Joss Stone
“Another very interesting chapter is the education of children: the victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in. For example, the needs of a job. When the dad doesn't have free time to speak to his children, when the mother doesn't have time to speak with her children.” NeedsChildrenProblemJobsMotherSpeakInterestingWifeExampleDadHusbandVictimChaptersVery InterestingFree Time Author:Pope Francis
“The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.” WorldHas BeensSidesInterestingNumbersPovertyEvolutionLessonsNegativeDuesImpressionDataStatisticsMonopolyVery InterestingCultivationProvidersRosyUpbeatWorld Bank Author:Thomas Pogge
“Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US.” ImportantTurnsCultureInterestingRocksMusic IsHappeningsEuropeGuitarAbandonRock And RollVery InterestingRock MusicArgentinaGuitar MusicRock And Roll Music Author:Gordon Raphael
“The fact that I don't get big offers, it means that I don't refuse them. And I say no occasionally to bands, if I find them not very interesting to me. Or sounds like a copy of something else, I will say no. But 97% of the time, I say yes thank you to any jobs I'm offered.” IfsMeanFactsBigsJobsSoundInterestingOffersBandRefuseCopiesVery Interesting Author:Gordon Raphael
“I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand how someone deems it necessary if somebody is in power to tear them down - I think that's really crucial. I make a lot of mean jokes about myself; as a theme, suffering seems to me a very interesting thing for comedy, but not the suffering of a particular individual.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanI CanSeemsSufferingIndividualInterestingComedyTearsParticularJokesBoringThemeCrucialVery InterestingInteresting Things Author:Dylan Moran
“Developing projects of my own and producing and writing and directing is something that's very interesting to me, but you know, one step at a time and you've got to establish yourself on one side before you really have the power to do something else. That's always the immediate goal.” KnowsWritingSidesGoalMy OwnInterestingStepsProjectsDevelopingVery InterestingOne Step At A Time Author:Tye Sheridan
“In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need new ways of assessing the latter. There are people who will continue to write nineteenth-century novels in the early twenty-first, and even win major prizes for them, but that's not very interesting, intellectually or emotionally.” PeopleWayNeedsWritingFirstsEndsCoursesWinningForgetInterestingNovelCenturyMajorsTwentiesNovelistsLatterPrizeJudgedNew WaysVery InterestingNineteenth CenturyAssessing Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I feel the same way when I meet somebody in Los Angeles, because I'm from Winnipeg. I'm just a very ordinary girl that something extraordinary happened to. So, I'll go to an event and, say, stand next to Charlize Theron and be like, "Oh my God! This is incredible!" And then you get to talk to her and you find out she's a real person. She's a mom and very interesting. I'm constantly thunderstruck by people that I admire.” PeopleRealGirlInterestingMomExtraordinaryIncrediblesAdmireLos AngelesVery Interesting Author:Nia Vardalos
“When we came to the network, it was a very interesting time where Portlandia had just come on the air and had been very, very successful. I think people had Portlandia-sized expectations for Comedy Bang! Bang!, especially after the first episode was sampled by quite a large number of people. I remember getting the ratings after the first episode, and the network was over the moon about it. And then the second episode tanked so hard. Like, no one watched it. It was a resounding, "Hey, a bunch of people tried your show, and they all hate it!"” PeopleThinkingRememberHateInterestingSuccessfulComedyMoonExpectationsVery Interesting Author:Scott Aukerman
“Fairfield Porter who has been my model for art writing all along, said that if the most interesting thing about a work of art is its content, it's probably a failure. I think it's true that if you find yourself thinking about the meaning in an author's message, it's probably not very interesting as art. Obviously, this is a tough concept, because if you withdraw intention.” ThinkingWritingArtInterestingArt IsToughIntentionFinding YourselfVery InterestingMost Interesting Author:David Salle
“I feel like all the American artists are aesthetically not very interesting and mired in a complaining relationship to its own culture, whereas the Italian work, from a different era, is so comfortable with its relationship to nature and to culture.” DifferentArtistCultureInterestingComplainingItalianVery Interesting Author:David Salle
“African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought literally wars against Europeans for control of that land. And that history of dispossession, you know, if you look at the treaties, it's very interesting. Everyone thinks that Indians were ripped off in their treaties. If you look at the first round of treaties from about 1800 to the Civil War, tribes secured over 150 million acres. I think it may have been 144 million acres in those treaties. That's a large amount of real estate.” ThinkingWarRealInterestingSlaveCivil WarVery Interesting Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So when you use race as a means to explore politics, it's a very interesting way of looking at difference, yet similarities.” MeanImportantInterestingAppreciateTolerateVery InterestingSimilarity Author:Amma Asante
“People's connection to their clothes is very interesting. And rather than my own exposure, I would rather have the clothes be reachable and for people to be able to make those connections on their own.” PeopleInterestingVery Interesting Author:Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski
“The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it. One of the most striking features of the elections is the class-based character of the vote. Now, class is not discussed or even measured in the United States. In fact, the word is almost obscene, except for the term "middle class." And you can't get exact class data; the census doesn't even give class data. But you can sort of see the significance of it just from income figures.” GivingCharacterTermInterestingSpecialVoteElectionMiddle ClassSignificanceVery InterestingObscene Author:Noam Chomsky
“A lot of people write in to me and say that they feel like The Uni-verse has abandoned them. Now, that is a very interesting story. There are some times where we are meant to be lost or confused. I had a long period in my life that felt like a holding pattern - it felt like stasis. But what was happening during that time was I was getting stronger on the inside. And that is change you can't SEE right away.” PeopleWritingLongInterestingStrongerConfusedMeant To BeAbandonedVery Interesting Author:Mastin Kipp
“It makes me a bit sad that, if anything, that people seem to want to go back to an old model of normality, and sitcoms seem to want to be about ordinary families and things that aren't very interesting. I just think it's a bit sad. It's a shame that life is still depicted in a very straight way.” PeopleThinkingInterestingShameVery InterestingSitcom Author:Jennifer Saunders
“As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind of soul and is the Buddha in some sense. This is why we can pray to it. Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material - it's earth, it's water and - with fire - it takes on form and life. In fact, what is art? Art is giving to what you create a soul. That's why it is said God is like an artist.” GivingBelieveKindArtSoulEarthArtistWaterInterestingPrayingArt IsBuddhistVery Interesting Author:Rithy Panh
“I support people if they are called to be active and protesting, resisting, working for restoration or, for more just political conversation. I also support everyone in listening to each other. We're at a very interesting and disturbing time in terms of our civil discourse. And yet always, in disturbance, things are shook up and that shaking can lead to deeper maturity and a deeper discourse. May it be so.” PeoplePoliticalTermInterestingSupportListeningMaturityVery InterestingShaking Author:Gangaji
“Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North America. It's not quite Canada and it's not quite America, and it's definitely got this very Euro feel to it. It's a very, very interesting city.” InterestingUniqueArchitectureBizarreVery InterestingEuro Author:Chris Demetral
“The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.” PeopleHumanityInterestingVery InterestingGave Up Author:James Gunn
“You get very little from the studios anymore, it's all independent. And I think the studio, with the exception of something like The Social Network, a fine film, very interesting, but as for studio pictures, that's it, what else? There was more only a few years ago. So it changes, and I'm trying as much as I can.” ThinkingTryingFilmInterestingIndependentExceptionVery InterestingSocial Network Author:Peter Weir
“Any country is hard to govern, even a very small country. It's not a question of whether the country is large or small. It's a question of how you relate to the work, to what extent you feel responsible for it. Russia is also hard to govern. Russia is at the development stage of both its political system and the creation of a market-based economy. It's a complicated process, but very interesting. Russia, actually, is not just a large country, it's a great country. I mean its traditions, and its cultural particularities.” MeanCountryPoliticalInterestingEconomyCreationTraditionResponsibleComplicatedVery InterestingGreat Country Author:Vladimir Putin
“Now we're in a recession, and at war, so people want to see this chihuahua movie, The Fountain. To be told to come to terms with death, that death is the road to all - it's a very intense subject. But as with movies that are very unusual, that have come to be thought of as very interesting, one finds out at the time that they were not understood. So who knows? We'll see. A lot of people really, really loved it, and a lot of people didn't get it.” PeopleWarTermInterestingIntenseUnusualFountainVery Interesting Author:Rachel Weisz
“There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn't designed to do. I have this relationship with my synthesizers. I've had them for so long, and I've never had them serviced, so that now practically all of their functions operate differently from what they were designed to do. They do very interesting things now, but that means nobody else can use them either.” GivingMeanLongInterestingFoolVery Interesting Author:Brian Eno
“Everybody's version of style is totally different and that's what I think keeps me going out on the street everyday is going out and kind of seeing the variations and what things maybe I'd never seen quite that way that I find very curious and how people will be able to communicate their own persona through their clothing, their posture, the way they wear their hair. I think all those elements end up becoming very interesting because I don't think I'm really particularly a people person. So for me I think it's interesting to kind of be able to read people in that way.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentInterestingStyleEverydayCommunicateCuriousVery InterestingPersona Author:Scott Schuman
“I think in Japan I think there is a lot of style and a lot of subcultures, but it will be interesting to see how much of them... how much of the people wearing those clothes are really expressing something about who they are or who they want to be and it will be very interesting to see, especially once you get there, once you get to a certain city like in Stockholm you really get to know the people a little bit and what they're saying through their clothes. It's more... To me I think it's much more interesting than just the clothes they're wearing or the length of the skirt.” PeopleThinkingInterestingStyleVery Interesting Author:Scott Schuman
“We have self-assessment tools, computer-based tools to see how we are performing mentally in outer space and there's some also very interesting technology and work that's being funded by NRSBI to look at facial recognition to look at your patterns to see if you're experiencing stress or fatigue. It's a kind of thing that I think will gain acceptance with gradually. But it probably has more to immediate application in things like homeland security, and looking at facial recognition of people going through airports and things like that to see who's under stress.” PeopleThinkingKindInterestingTechnologySecurityAcceptanceStressRecognitionPerformingApplicationVery InterestingFatigueOuter Space Author:Leroy Chiao
“You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different than the present, and the present is past, as we say it. I think I, by nature, am an optimist. Maybe I was driven to escape from my childhood and to be something, create my own world or career the way I wanted it to be. And I keep doing that in very interesting ways.” ThinkingWorldDifferentPastInterestingChildhoodDrivenCuriousOptimistVery Interesting Author:Les Wexner
“Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.” PeopleThinkingEnergyInterestingTalentVery Interesting Author:Annette Bening
“It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and change their consciousness. He wanted to reach the "working classes" in England. The kind of music he was making was very much from the academy, even though it had a lot in common with things like free jazz and improvisation, and he felt that it was the music of the elite, and that he wasn't really speaking to the people.” PeopleKindInterestingCommonConsciousnessJazzAcademicWorking ClassVery InterestingImprovisation Author:Alasdair MacLean
“I did one interview with the Atlantic. It was very interesting; I could write an entire book on that one experience. I've never had any type of public persona outside of the face recognition I have with this job, so I was really ill prepared to have this conversation. I think the real story was that it became a source for a flurry of other derivative stories. I remember the Post headline said "Marcarelli's Bizarre Life," which to me is code for gay, primarily.” ThinkingWritingBookRealRememberInterestingGayIllRecognitionCodeBizarreVery InterestingPersona Author:Paul Marcarelli
“I'm bored with DJs. Anybody that puts the title DJ in front of their name immediately turns me off. I prefer the term "sampling," because it has both the dilettante side, like someone tasting wine or caviar, but also functions as a kind of litmus paper dipped into culture. And the whole semi-legality of sampling is very interesting as well. So a DJ is not really creative enough for me to be an appropriate metaphor.” KindEnoughCultureTermInterestingCreativeWineMetaphorBoredVery Interesting Author:Momus
“Preparing the animation is close to the comic book process but there are plenty of problems. It's very interesting, but it's also sometimes a pain in the arse, especially because it's so very long. Something that takes 10 minutes in comic book form can take 10 months in film form. But I love the results.” LongBookSometimesProblemPainFilmInterestingPlentyComicComic BookVery InterestingAnimation Author:Joann Sfar
“I think that some people have wonderful spots. I think that Karl Lagerfeld has a wonderful spot designing for Chanel. They really just let him go. I think John Galliano is a huge talent. Marc Jacobs is also a huge talent - and a very interesting one to me.” PeopleThinkingInterestingWonderfulTalentDesignVery InterestingLet Him Go Author:Polly Allen Mellen
“I think Rihanna is very interesting. But those people, the singers especially, know how to handle themselves because they're in the limelight. That's why it has grown into something where the model has stepped back - and I don't know if it's coming forward again.” PeopleThinkingInterestingVery Interesting Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere
“My work is nice, natural, it's never "been there done that," my work remains very interesting without losing my soul - because it's really me, and I am always honest with myself. I don't care what's in or out, I just listen to myself. And it's very nice to able to work like that. At the beginning people might have wondered what I was doing, but now they know my line, my evolution, I'm respected for that and that's a wonderful feeling.” PeopleSoulDoneFeelingsCareNaturalInterestingNiceWonderfulHonestEvolutionLosingVery InterestingVery NiceJust Listen Author:Ann Demeulemeester
“When I don't have anything to say, I don't publish. Rather than posting something that's not very interesting, it's best to wait until you have something that really inspires you and makes you laugh.” WaitingInterestingLaughingInspireVery InterestingPublish Author:Garance Dore
“We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any one of TV shows takes twice as long to watch as that, which I think is very interesting because the main excuse people give for not cooking is they don't have time to cook, but somehow they're finding time to watch other people cook or eat on TV.” PeopleThinkingGivingLongHoursInterestingCookingExcuseCleaningVery Interesting Author:Michael Pollan
“I spend a lot of time on Twitter, and it's a very interesting place. People are so driven to aggression. To me it's a funny thing. I grew up in an aggressive family, so I'm not at all intimidated by being verbally abused. I have no fear with words.” PeopleInterestingDrivenAggressiveAggressionNo FearVery InterestingIntimidatedHave No Fear Author:Alison Moyet
“To me, Sheitan movie is the answer to all the problems we have in France concerning immigration. That is a fake problem; people can actually work together and do something very interesting out of it.” PeopleProblemTogetherInterestingImmigrationFakeWorking TogetherVery Interesting Author:Vincent Cassel