interesting quotes

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.