Hermann Hesse Quotes

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

Hermann Hesse

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• As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Friends
  • View
  • Sarcastic

• Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

  

  James Nesbitt

• The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Dad
  • Scary

• You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

  

  John Frankenheimer
  • Work
  • Movie

• I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

  

  John Bolton
  • Party
  • Tea

• It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

  

  John Singleton
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• I don't work at being ordinary.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Ordinary

• Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Art
  • Technique
  • Characterless

• Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Writing
  • Moment
  • Preserve

• The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Keys

• Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.

  

  William Penn
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Judgment

• The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Beauty
  • Human Life
  • Retaliation

• You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mistake
  • Happiness
  • Choose

• What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Reason
  • Found
  • Evidence

• Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Fantasy
  • Escape
  • Real Life

• Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Destroyed
  • Field
  • Equilibrium

• In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • People
  • Fire
  • Building

• In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Destroyed
  • Hitler
  • Acknowledged