Quotes of: Special-interest Keyword

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they act...

Marc Jacobs

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Rita Dove

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think ...

Richard Serra

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Samuel Butler

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

Shea Hembrey

Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get mor...

Tunde Adebimpe

Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

After the Apocalypse

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth

Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most other languages, my name included.

Afterimage

Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude.

Artificial Gods

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Anne of the Island

Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.

The Almond Tree

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a cer...

Thom Yorke

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation

A Hero of Our Time

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

I Learn from Children

No, of course not. I just feel content,” she said carefully. “That’s an old person’s word,” said Ethan.

The Interestings

The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she couldn’t understand at all.

The Interestings

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

The Interestings

Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?” “Hmm,” said Jules. “Yes. The Holocaust.

The Interestings

Conflict of interest. I wanted to date somebody who was less screwed up than me, and she wasn't.

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