Fleeting Interest Quotes

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Kids just want to have one song. They don't care about a body of work; they don't even care about a whole album - they just want whatever's hot right now. They download that song, and that's it.

You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it's necessary or that it's not even worth to do it. It's just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.

Always been a big heavy metal fan. I remember being 15 saying, Dude I'm going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal til I'm 60. I'm 35 now. I think I'm going to give it one more year.

L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

The memory of the American public is about six weeks.

It isn't an easy thing to cater to a public that gets tired of anything in about three days.

A lot of times, guys leave WWE or get fired by WWE, but there's always that little bit of buzz right when they get out on the scene, but like all buzz, it fades. But I feel really flattered that, for whatever reason, it seems to be trending upwards.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

The radio craze will die out in time.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

I think people are interested in celebrities because it's easy, disposable entertainment and it's fun escapism.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

First I got a yo-yo. I got good and then I got bored. Next I got one of those wooden paddles with a rubber ball at the end of an elastic band. I got good and then I got bored. Then I tried bubbles. I got good but I never got bored.

I don't really care for or that much about Chat Roulette. I think the phenomenon of it and like the first wow factor which was so absolutely insane about Chat Roulette. Certainly that's what inspired me to make that movie but I think that's true for everyone that used Chat Roulette which is why it was such an explosion. Now it's just kind of disappeared. You don't hear much about it anymore.

Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing a play right now.' Because I loved doing plays when I was doing them. Then I think, 'I want to do it right now, but will I want to do that Sunday matinee in six weeks?'

Things come and go in the news cycle like waves of fever.

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.