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  • The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

    Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”
  • Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and picked up some hopefully interesting stories. We are living in interesting times and as bad as things are, I draw considerable inspiration from some of the things I'm seeing and people I'm meeting. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road and talking about it all.

    "Henry Rollins' 25 Years Of Bullshit", www.ign.com. August 11, 2005.
  • Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

    Nice   Mean   Discworld  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)”, p.11, Random House
  • May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people.

  • I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

  • Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.

    Men   Goal   Interesting  
    Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.
  • I hope you find what you're looking for.

  • We'd be recording and I'd go down to Greenpoint where Rostam was living and track stuff... It was a busy time. I felt like in general, I was just super psyched with the prospect of getting to be a musician, that it became a thing that I would think about more than I would think about my studies and stuff like that. I still did fine, but it was an interesting time in my life.

  • My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

  • I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

  • Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

    Hero   Purpose   Saws  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)”, p.139, Random House
  • Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

    Confused   Nice   Mean  
    "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.
  • Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

    "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.
  • And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

    Book   People   Age  
    "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.
  • It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

    Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.
  • I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.

    "A life in writing: Dennis Lehane". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2009.
  • I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

    "Someplace to be Flying". Book by Charles de Lint, 1998.
  • The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French accent, or a particular love of opera... or all those other things that people tend to attach to many fictional detectives. He's just an ordinary guy doing an extraordinary job, in a very interesting time.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • It's nice to know that you're worth something and music really does put that kind of light back into you. Well, it does for me anyway. I've been through some very interesting times in my life and there is certain songs that I go to and I'm like, ok, it's not that bad.

    Song   Nice   Light  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime, and racketeering, and all sorts of hangovers from a very difficult time in French history. So it's an interesting time to be a policeman.

    Hangover   Gun   Years  
    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • Macho in a different sense, the kind of things that we think makes us a man. It doesn't really exist right now. I really don't want it to seem that I think it's a problem that women are in development, I don't think it's as problem at all, I just think it's an interesting time that we're in. And maybe long overdue - maybe television for a long time was made for men and it's long overdue.

    Men   Thinking   Long  
    Source: deadline.com
  • I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was stuck in the midst of a lot of change and seemed a bit redundant.

    "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.
  • It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

  • I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

    Source: logosjournal.com
  • Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

  • Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

    Death   Magic   Lasts  
  • Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

    Sound   Would Be   Paper  
    "Interesting Times (Discworld, Book 17)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 186), 1994.
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