Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taking people's property away for a public interest is one thing, but taking it away to give to another use that will pay more taxes is terrible. That means that nobody's property is safe.

It's important to us to be involved in local politics and take a vested interest in the community. San Marcos is not just a place we come to work, and we are very interested in public safety.

Juan Manuel Santos

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

It is the substance we are interested in at this stage, not the process,

It keeps a lot of people interested in the process.

Eric Schlosser

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

Lyle Overbay

It will be interesting, ... I'm kind of interested to see what transpires.

They did not provide the services they said they'd provide. That was our original interest in having them as our tenant.

They were very interested in whether this implicated Karla Homolka.

It seems as though they are taking a new line now. There's now a concerted shift away from using interest rates as a mechanism.

Juan Fernandez

It was a pleasant surprise that long-term interest rates stayed low.

Curt Schilling

It was a pivotal time in my career, and fortunately for me, he was interested in me. That says a lot about him. ... I still watch video of him. I still learn from him. Just odds and ends, whatever I can pick up.

Paul Tracy

I've got to get out on the track and test and race and see how it all goes. Obviously it's something I'm interested in, but we'll just see how it goes, see how things progress.

I've got an invested interest in the school system having three kids in it.

Tom Daschle

No, I'm not interested in vice president or the cabinet.

It's always nice if younger kids get interested in the team. And someday we're going to need new people, we're not going to be here forever.

It's like the Yankee Stadium of rock 'n' roll. It's where you come to in New York if you're interested in rock 'n' roll music.

Karin Slaughter

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

Lance Henriksen

My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'

Katherine Jenkins

For me, with the Blue Man Group, I got asked. It was for the Royal Variety Show, which was something I always wanted to be a part of. I'm really interested in things people don't necessarily expect. I did a pop song, but I did it in my own style.

We had anticipated some interest in what we were doing, but this has received a lot more interest than we expected.

Noam Chomsky

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Jodi Picoult

I found plain truth very interesting.

John Green

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

John Green

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

John Green

In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.

A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience.

Ewan McGregor

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

Evan Rachel Wood

Anytime you have to get intimate on camera, it's always a little interesting. You have to trick your brain almost, so that you don't get stage fright or get too much in your head where you're super uncomfortable.

Eva Green

I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

Kirk Douglas

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

Paul Newman

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

Paul Berg

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.