Simple things don't interest me.
I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.
I'm interested in characters that are complex people.
I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.
It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
My personality doesn't interest me.
Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.
And what I'm interested in is investing in people.
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
It's always the story that interests me.
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.
And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.
March out of the common line; make bold steps ahead and dance to the tune of a sweeter, better and nicer tone of your own music. March out of the tiny box!
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. .
According to FBI statistics, false accusations of rape are no more common than for other crimes. Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior, p109
[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
