Interesting Quotes - Page 36

• this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.106

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• He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Imagination, Pirate

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• Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Country, Laughter

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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• We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

  Lev Grossman

  Meaningful, Real, Expectations

  "Goodreads" interview, www.goodreads.com. August, 2009.

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• Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. Whatever mysterious plan God had for her life, it would be an interesting one. As Christy had said earlier, God writes a different story for each person. Sierra decided hers might not be a bestseller or even a thriller. It certainly wasn't a romance. But it was turning into a fine mystery. And she could live with that.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Writing, Romance, Different

  Robin Jones Gunn (1997). “With this Ring”, Focus on the Family Pub

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• Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

  John Green

  Towns, Unfair, Yeah

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.32, A&C Black

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• 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

  Two, Long, Sun

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.62, Del Rey

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• holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

  Don DeLillo

  Book, Holes

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.

  Jim Dodge

  Acceptance, Growing, Wonder

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• Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Regret, Done

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• Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ponies, Want, Week

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• No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.

  David Nicholls

  Guarantees That, Skins, Might

  David Nicholls (2008). “Starter for Ten: A Novel”, p.136, Villard

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• Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

  William James

  Strong, Real, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.78, Nuvision Pubns

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• No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

  Alane Ferguson

  Cutting, Grandmother, Body

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• Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Mean, Past

  "A life in writing" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

  Charles Portis

  Educational, Writing, Long

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.52, A&C Black

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• He turned, throwing over hi shoulder, ”And if he growls at you, even once, he’s out. He looks wild.” I am, Riley snapped inside her head. Do not laugh, she thought to herself. Her dad paused at the door. “Where does it stay while you’re at school?” It. Nice. “Outside.” “You could be inviting flees into our home, Mary Ann.” No. Laughing. “He’s clean, Dad. I swear. But if I spot a single little bug, I’ll bathe him.” That could prove interesting, Riley said.

  Gena Showalter

  Dad, Nice, Home

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• What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Faces, Challenges We Face

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• 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

  Technology, Gallery, Turns

  William Gibson (2007). “Spook Country”, p.84, Penguin

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• Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

  Charles de Lint

  Pieces, Surprise, Stranger

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• When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answer after the fact, after they're back at home, who can never think of a story that anyone else will find interesting--is there not more depth and more meaning in them? You can see every letter of every untold story swimming on their faces, and all the signs of silence, dejection, and even defeat. You can even imagine your own face in those faces, can't you?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Home, Swimming, Thinking

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• It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

  Cory Doctorow

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.69, Booklassic

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• The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Different, Very Good

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Thinking, Light

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• But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Spring

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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