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The Most Interesting Quotes

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain

And the most interesting natural structure?
A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.
- Douglas Adams

...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
- Paulo Coelho

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
- Shana Alexander

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.
- Wes Anderson

Fine, you fun-vampire. I'll take my scroll over here and play by myself. (Kat)
Fun-vampire? What is that? (Sin)
That would be you sucking all the fun out of life. (Kat)
You have the most interesting terms for things. (Sin)
Yes, but notice mine are creative, unlike the so stellarly named Rod of Time. (Kat)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
- Josh Billings

I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life
- Alan Bradley

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.
- Chester Brown

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
- Neve Campbell

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
- Tucker Carlson

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
- David Chalmers

The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.
- James Chanos

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.
- Stephen King

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.
- Leroy Chiao

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
- Terry Pratchett

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
- Will Durant

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.
- Ronny Cox

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
- Ice Cube

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Meditation is holy to me, for I believe that all the secrets of existence and nonexistence are somewhere in our heads - or in other people's heads. And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
- Kurt Vonnegut

I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want the press to write about me... it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.
- Evan Davis

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
- Geena Davis

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.
- Richard H Davis

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
- Bernadette Devlin

Mr. Tracy Tupmanthe too susceptible Tupman, who to the wisdom and experience of maturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesseslove.
- Charles Dickens

The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason.
- Charles Dickens

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live
- Marcel Duchamp

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
- Umberto Eco

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.
- Joel Edgerton

A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'
- Zac Efron

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
- Morton Feldman

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.
- Bridget Fonda

I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.
- Edward Forbes

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.
- Jamie Foxx

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
- Marguerite Gardiner

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
- Carlos Ghosn

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
- William Gibson

Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.
- Daryl Hannah

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
- Napoleon Hill

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.
- Maurice Jarre

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
- Kevin Kelly

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
- Barbara Kingsolver

...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think? Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.
- Hanif Kureishi

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
- Hedy Lamarr

Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.
- Ariel Levy

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
- Adrian Lyne

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
- Yoyo Ma

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.
- Taryn Manning

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
- Greil Marcus

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
- Thom Mayne

The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
- Ian Mcdiarmid

... he felt unusually warm toward humankind. He even thought that it could warm to him. Everyone, all of us, individually facing oblivion as a matter of course, and no one complaining much. As a species, not the best imaginable, but certainly the best, no, the most interesting there was.
- Ian Mcewan

I felt a surge of pity, and relief. Pity because, as beautiful as they were, they were outsiders, clearly not accepted. Relief that I wasn't the only newcomer here, and certainly not the most interesting by any standard.--Bella Swan
- Stephenie Meyer

I figure the folks that are the most interesting get to go to heaven. I mean, if I was God, that's who I'd want there with me... I'd rather be a superhero in hell than an angel in heaven. What the feck would I do all day if I wasn't kicking demon ass?
- Karen Marie Moning

I used to think that those essentially happy and romantic novels that ended with a wedding were all wrong, that they had left out the most interesting part of the story.
- Lorrie Moore

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
- Daniel Keys Moran

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
- Ikue Mori

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
- Bruce Nauman

I watch Stewart. He has the most interesting face. It is beautiful, young, almost childlike, and yet with a power and authority in his features. In another time he would have been a young warrior, a Lost Prince exiled from his kingdom. But he's from this time, this place, so he's just some "at risk" kid who can't find a place for himself in the straight world.
- Blake Nelson

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
- Brian De Palma

The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.
- Teresa De La Parra

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
- Michelle Pfeiffer

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
- William Lyon Phelps

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
- William Lyon Phelps

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
- Frederik Pohl

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.
- Steve Reich

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.
- Rihanna

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
- Donald Rumsfeld

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
- Tabitha Soren

I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.
- Anna Sui

I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.
- Kurt Sutter

I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.
- Kurt Sutter

The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.
- Lee Trevino

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
- Diane Wakoski

I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
- Jimmy Wales

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.
- Julie Walters

We don't have to talk about Zsadist.
That's okay. He's the most interesting part of me.
- J R Ward

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.
- Gabrielle Zevin

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