The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Maurice Sendak

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
Wilhelm Reich

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Walter Benjamin

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
Jared Diamond

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
Andrew Johnson

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
Catherine Deneuve

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.
Juliette Binoche

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
Barbara Jordan

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.
Martin Gore

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.
Marc Wallice

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
Don Henley

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
Edouard Manet

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
Edward Thorndike

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
Talcott Parsons

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons

Reality doesn't interest me.
Leni Riefenstahl

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
Keith Haring

I don't have a strong interest in history.
Larry Niven