Fading Interest Quotes

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

Everybody asks me, 'Lee when did you know it was time to retire?' I said, 'when they quit asking me to coach.' After the Orlando Renegades, not many people were busting down my doors to coach, so why not do something else.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

This might disappoint you somewhat, but I have to say my interest in Tolkien has faded dramatically over the years. His language skills are amazing, his story good and fascinating, but... he has a very Judeo-Christian perspective, and his use of mythical creatures is very... ignorant.

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

I've had the new band experience plenty of times, and sometimes, it just sort of peters out.

I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

I believe that Lady Gaga is like a carnival ride. From a distance she looks fun, but up close, you don't wanna climb on that.

When I was younger, I grew up a Packers fan because my dad played for the Packers. As I got older, I've fallen away from it.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.

The questions to ask are, why was the decathlon so popular before, and what happened to make it fade? I notice a lot of things in general tend to follow that up-and-down trend.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

The other day, I said I should write a song, 'When Does the New Wear Off?' I think it would be a helluva title.

Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then they died away as the teacher was absorbed like everyone else...before you knew it, the fresh ones seemed to have been teaching there forever too, or else they didn't last very long, and were gone before you'd gotten to know them.

There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.