Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Good
  • Question
  • Poetry

• I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Father
  • Survive
  • Twin

• Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Sex
  • Television
  • Taxes

• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Working
  • Police
  • Corrupt

• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Practice

• As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Kind
  • Guys
  • Perform

• I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Working
  • Musically

• I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Money
  • Always
  • Film

• I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • School
  • Power

• Power to the peaceful.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Power
  • Peaceful

• And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • War
  • Eyes
  • Smile

• A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Personality

• We're like a really nice drink. We help people get through the day-we make life a little sunnier. I don't think we have any profound effect. If anybody has had a profound effect, it's The Beatles, and their effect is still minimal. There are things in the world way more important than music. Family is 50 times more important than music.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • World
  • Country
  • Hope

• I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Character

• I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.

  

  Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fashion
  • Brave
  • Noble

• There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Character
  • Needs
  • Names

• I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • May
  • Help
  • Future

• Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche