Taylor Swift on why girls look up to her: “It’s the message. I try to have a normal life and look at things in a normal way, under very abnormal circumstances. That’s always going to...

I always listen to what people don’t say, it’s a lot more interesting than the bullshit they want you to believe.

A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener.

You say freak, I say unique.

Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not…it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home...

We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.

Yet they enjoy the high. In the surest sign that selenium actually makes them go mad, cattle grow addicted to locoweed despite its awful side effects and eat it to the exclusion of anything else....

But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they...

Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.

In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning.

Life’s only choosing when to die. Life’s a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It’s a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

This is my own personal logo

…the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one

Change the world, I know I won’t,Enthralling as always I hope it remains,A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.But my only wish as I take this jaunt,Is for my words on you to impress upon,A...

The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange, Laplace, and Gauss, who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note the marked contrast in their styles. Lagrange is perfect both in form and matter, he is...

It’s interesting how interesting uninteresting people get after a few drinks.

No one wants to admit we’re addicted to music. That’s just not possible. No one’s addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume....

If rules make a framework for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out?

{Replying to G. H. Hardy’s suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was ‘dull’, showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius}No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a...

Ive allways wondered what the 4 letters in the word LIFE stands for. I know understand that it stands for: Little Interesting Facts Everyday.

Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you’re at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys… traveling feels to me...

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

You never know who it’s going to be, or what they’ll bring, but whatever it is, it’s always exactly what is needed.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

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

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

I always wondered what the four letters in LIFE stand for. I now understand that they stand for: Little Interesting Facts Every day.

I don’t speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

she wasn’t veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

Writers are not narcissists. They simply acknowledge that what they find interesting is not unique to them.

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific...

If one would praise the Almighty, one must then revel in His works, and take them whole, adore their very grossness, savor the oozing quiddity of that slime of which He seems to be inordinately...

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No...

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching...

Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time, or didn’t take it, at pleasure. And,similarly, things themselves possessed no fixed and intrinsic amount of interest;...

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the...

The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.

The aloo gobi is perhaps to North India what apple pie is to America. It is cheap and easy to make. Like most Indian dishes, you can make aloo gobi in as complex or rudimentary...

Believe me, It would be better if we didn’t meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you’re still...

I met a guy who had an interesting job. He was a meat cutter, or a meat slicer, something like that. I probably butchered his job title.

All life’s a risk, that’s what makes it interesting.

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he...

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,’ Gordon was saying. ‘And if a man is not effective, if his very being is as insubstantial as thought, then what...