Quotes on Interest

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

Author: Neil Abercrombie

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

Author: Philip Anderson

What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well.

Author: Michael Aspel

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.

Author: David Attenborough

With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.

Author: Tom Barrett

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

Author: Don Baylor

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Author: Walter Benjamin

Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

Author: Ben Bernanke

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Author: Harrison Birtwistle

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

Author: Otis Blackwell

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

Author: Nina Blackwood

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

Author: Ruben Blades

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

Author: Orlando Bloom

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

Author: John Bonham

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Author: F. Bradley

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

Author: Hjalmar Branting

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Author: Jimmy Breslin

When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.

Author: Chester Brown

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

Author: Dan Brown

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.

Author: James Buckley

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Author: Joseph Butler

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

Author: Vivian Campbell

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

Author: Steve Case

But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.

Author: Arthur Cayley

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Author: Agatha Christie

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

Author: Chris Christie

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Author: Emile Cioran

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

Author: Brian Cleary

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.

Author: Sasha Cohen

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Author: Bill Condon

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

Author: Ezra Cornell

I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

Author: Katie Couric

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

Author: Herbert Croly

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.

Author: Robert Crumb

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

Author: Peter DeFazio

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

Author: Dorothy Denning

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

Author: Kate DiCamillo

Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.

Author: Geoff Downes

I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts.

Author: Julia Dreyfus

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

Author: Philip Emeagwali

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

Author: Joschka Fischer

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Author: Lucian Freud

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Author: Lucian Freud

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

Author: Seth Godin

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

Author: Daniel Goleman

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Author: Thomas Griffith

My personality doesn't interest me.

Author: Andrei Gromyko

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

Author: Paul Haggis

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways.

Author: Pauline Hanson

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Author: Edward Heath

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

Author: Jim Henson

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

Author: Victor Hess

They had absolutely no sexual interest in me.

Author: Betty Hill

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

Author: John Hull

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

Author: Gwen Ifill

It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

Author: Robert Iger

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Author: William Inge

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

Author: Muhammad Iqbal

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Author: Jeremy Irons

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

Author: Donald Judd

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Author: Helen Keller

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

Author: Stephen Kleene

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

Author: Ronald Knox

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

Author: Alexis Korner

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

Author: Anna Kournikova

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

Author: Joseph Lancaster

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

Author: John Lawson

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

Author: Joshua Lederberg

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

Author: Friedrich List

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

Author: Mary MacLane

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Author: James Madison

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

Author: Edouard Manet

I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

Author: Lata Mangeshkar

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

Author: Richard Marx

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

Author: George Mead

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Author: Dwight Moody

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

Author: Rick Moody

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

Author: Kate Moss

I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad.

Author: Hidetoshi Nakata

Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

Author: Joseph Needham

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.

Author: Al Oerter

Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.

Author: Johnny Olson

I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.

Author: Bob Paisley

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

Author: Antoinette Perry

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Author: Jackson Pollock

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.

Author: John Pomfret

They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

Author: Laura Prepon

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

Author: Raymond Queneau

And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

Author: Franklin Raines

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

Author: Rodrigo Rato

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

Author: Johannes Rau

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

Author: Jules Renard

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

Author: Tim Rice

Reality doesn't interest me.

Author: Leni Riefenstahl

I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

Author: Michael Ritchie

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

Author: John Robinson

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

Author: Bill Rodgers

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Author: Jean Rostand

For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

Author: Warren Rue

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

Author: Mark Ruffalo

Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region.

Author: Ali Saleh

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

Author: Robert Scott

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

Author: Earl Scruggs

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

Author: Ted Shackelford

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Author: Robert Sheckley

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Author: Richard Sheridan

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.

Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

Author: Leland Stanford

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

Author: Leigh Steinberg

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

Author: Harlan Stone

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Author: Quentin Tarantino

I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.

Author: Paul Taylor

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Author: Henry Thoreau

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Author: Henry Thoreau

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

Author: Gene Tierney

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

Author: Alex Trebek

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Author: John Turturro

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

Author: Tom Verlaine

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

Author: Benjamin Wade

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

Author: John Walters

We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.

Author: Jim Walton

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Author: George Washington

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Author: Mae West

We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.

Author: Shane West

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

Author: Andrew Wiles

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Author: Herman Wouk

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

Author: Susannah York

Success is often disguised as hard work wearing a cozy pair of sweatpants.

Author: Jamie Vardy