“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.” YearsLooksMadeSometimesGuyTurnsSoundInterestingYears AgoDown AndMade ItGlimpseSurfingThat Guy Author:Andrew Niccol
“I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?” WritingYearsKindSongInterestingEventsHugeCoupleYears AgoStrikesHorribleHipsReplacements Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.” YearsInterestingPartySmartMy FriendsYears AgoEpiphany Author:Moby
“Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.” YearsHas BeensMomentsAgeInterestingRolesHistoryGenerationsYears AgoFinishedOlder Women Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal
“I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.” ThinkingMenWayYearsStillsRunningFatherInterestingOne ThingBloodCenturyHe ManEuropeYears AgoRegionsCreedsVeinsOur FatherPaganismNorwegiansOdinScandinaviansWiccan Author:Thomas Carlyle
“It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.” IfsYearsInterestingFashionProveYears AgoHatsReally Interesting Author:Sebastian Horsley
“A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.” YearsLittlesTwoImportantInterestingLessonsFairsYears AgoWeatherAwardsImportant LessonsFetchFair Weather Friend Author:Martin Short
“I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.” KnowsWayYearsDoeHomeSeemsRememberGuySpeakVoiceInterestingWifeHeardStrangeSittingYears AgoMachinesMy WifeOscarsThrillingCouchesKevinAnswering Machines Author:Christopher Walken
“I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.” ThinkingTryingYearsFirstsDifferentStoriesUseRememberNextBitsInterestingCitiesHeardCoupleShadowFairsYears AgoSaintChecksThanksThese DaysParisFascinatingTallCastingEndeavourDublinSundials Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Thirty years ago, interracial marriage was considered to be wrong by the laws of God. Now your society finds it common. The spiritual objections around it were either dropped or "rewritten" by those divinely inspired and authorized to do so. Therefore, your actual interpretations of the instructions from God changed with your society's tolerance level - an interesting thing, indeed, how the interpretations of God seem to change regularly to match a changing culture!” YearsSeemsSpiritualLawCultureInterestingLevelsCommonChangedYears AgoInspiredToleranceThirtyInterpretationInstructionInteresting ThingsThirty YearsObjectionsInterracial Marriage Author:Lee Carroll
“Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.” YearsMadeSeemsWantedInterestInterestingCasesYears AgoPassionateBarsFilmmakerCompellingVery InterestingAmenNicole Author:Ethan Hawke
“I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsWellsStatesTodayWhiteInterestingApproachYears AgoEggsCrispsOmelets Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“I actually love...Well I love both of them [Paris Hilton or Britney Spears] but I really love Paris Hilton. I interviewed her once, she had a record coming out. She was DJing and promoting that. It was actually only a couple of years ago. She had her persona in tact when I was interviewing her and then after we broke she came for a cigarette with me and I just found it so... she's so intelligent and interesting and obviously is playing the game.” YearsWellsFoundGamesInterestingRecordsCoupleYears AgoIntelligentBrokeParisComing OutCigarettePromotingPersonaSpearsTact Author:Alexa Chung
“The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.” PeopleWayYearsHumansKindDifferentCultureInterestingStyleHappeningsYears AgoDifferent WaysVery InterestingResonance Author:Owsley Stanley
“The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer in Chicago at that time. Now I'm sure he read the Chicago Tribune, so he knew about it, but when he went to show his solidarity with the workforce, the first place he went was Caterpillar. I don't think he's forgotten, and the labor movement didn't react. Even radical labor historians didn't remember. It was only 15 years ago, after all, but that's a real triumph of propaganda in many ways.” ThinkingWayYearsFirstsKindRealShowsRememberCommunityInterestingSupportMovementYears AgoLaborUnionsForgottenRadicalBarackTriumphPropagandaChicagoHistorianSolidarityWorkforceCaterpillarsOrganizerLabor Movement Author:Noam Chomsky
“Staying relevant is key. When you're telling your story, you better have a modern story to tell. If I was still saying the same story I was saying 10 years ago, it would not be that interesting.” IfsYearsStillsStoriesInterestingModernKeysYears AgoStayingRelevantTelling Your Story Author:Marc Benioff
“'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.” YearsFilmThreeInterestingCircumstancesShotsRedYears AgoBoatRemarkableThree YearsVery InterestingKnotsAntarctica Author:Olivia Thirlby
“It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.” PeopleWayYearsInterestingYears AgoClutterArchaeologyArchaeologists Book:An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
“I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.” YearsKidsSchoolInterestingCoupleHigh SchoolYears AgoBoringDullUnusualMost InterestingReunionHigh School ReunionSchool Reunion Author:Anderson Cooper