Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
Duke Ellington

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

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
Josef Albers

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
Andrew Wiles

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph W. Sockman

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
Boyd Rice

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.
Boyd Rice

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Lord Chesterfield

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.
Peter Singer

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
Quentin Tarantino

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
Theodor Adorno