Quotes of: Vested-interest Keyword

I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem t...

Leaving the Atocha Station

Who constitutes the nation? Only the elite?Or do the hundreds of millions of poor in India also make up the nation? Are their interests never identified with national interest? Or is there more than one nation? That is the question you often run up a...

P.Sainath

Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don't be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time w...

Kristin Armstrong

So from now on, screw "perfect." Forget for a while about what kind of person you want to be, and just be the best version of the person you are. Figure out which of your classmates you genuinely like (not who you want to like you), and get to know t...

Kat Rosenfield

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to b...

Charles Bukowski

Prince Feisal: Well, General, I will leave you. Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make upon my people and their weakness, and the need to keep them weak in the British interest... and the French interest too, of course. We must not forget the F...

Lawrence of Arabia

Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

Cocaine

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

Everlost

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother

All really interesting girls invent themselves.

Bright Young Things

Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.

Breathing for Two

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

Gregg Sulkin

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

Jeremy Renner

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Louis Kahn

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Anita Brookner

I had no interest in high school besides art.

Damian Loeb

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Henry Moore

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Jeff Koons

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

Miuccia Prada

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

Taylor Swift