Interesting Quotes - Page 36

• It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.

  Rick Santorum

  Children, School, Three

  4 Copy quote

• I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Educational, Believe, Book

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol, Drug

  19 Copy quote

• An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Groups, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

  Eric Schmidt

  Boys, Ideas, Google

  "Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 11, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.

  Rob Schneider

  Men, Laughing, House

  7 Copy quote

• A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Mouths, Faces

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377, 2007.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It's got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.

  Ricky Schroder

  Nashville, People, Culture

  4 Copy quote

• I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

  David Schwimmer

  Falling In Love, Tv Shows, America

  9 Copy quote

• It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

  Martin Scorsese

  Political, Corruption, Crime

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  16 Copy quote

• I find it interesting that 16-year-olds are having plastic surgery. People in their 40s used to think, 'I'm aging, I have to do something about it.' Now children are deciding they don't like the way they look.

  Jane Seymour

  Children, Thinking, Years

  8 Copy quote

• It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

  Jane Seymour

  Funny, Girl, School

  4 Copy quote

• I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

  William Shatner

  Fun, Years, Three

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

  Gene Simmons

  Fun, Party, Thinking

  "Kiss' Simmons vs. NPR's Gross". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, articles.chicagotribune.com. February 20, 2002.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

  Carly Simon

  Strong, Emotional, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

• What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

  Herbert Simon

  Spiritual, Science, Attention

  "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World". "Communication, and the Public Interest". Book by Martin Greenberger, pp. 40-41, 1971.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

  Gene Siskel

  Lunch, Actors, Documentaries

  16 Copy quote

• Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

  Grace Slick

  Jobs, White, Monsters

  35 Copy quote

• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

  Jane Smiley

  Fashion, Art, Book

  4 Copy quote

• 'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

  Jane Smiley

  Philosophical, House, Ambitious

  "Ape House by Sara Gruen - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

  Arthur Smith

  People, Perception, Gauges

  "Carry on gurning" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2002.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Risk, Preparation

  "Matt Smith and Karen Gillan Interview DOCTOR WHO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2011.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

  Zadie Smith

  People, Political, Certain

  4 Copy quote