Hermann Hesse Quotes
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.Hermann Hesse
Quotes to Explore
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg -
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney -
It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
Natalie du Toit -
Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
Tahar Rahim -
Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Sam Kean
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
Karen Kingsbury -
I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
Gabriel Basso -
I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
Vernon A. Walters -
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck -
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence -
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
Hannah Murray
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler -
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
Queen Latifah -
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson -
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Karl Popper -
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
Kaki King -
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
Pablo Casals
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
Tamron Hall -
Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
Laurence J. Peter -
I talk to Dom all the time, but he still won't tell me any of the good plot twists for next season's 'Lost.'
Elijah Wood -
People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth.
Eugene J. Martin -
This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
Tavis Smiley -
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.
Hermann Hesse