Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) Quotes

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mistake
  • Place
  • First

• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• I don't want to lose what I've won.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Won

• During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • Water
  • First
  • Existence

• Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Pretty
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Rising

• Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Home
  • Day
  • End

• I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Always
  • Pure
  • Sciences

• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Fear
  • Style
  • Said

• I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Me
  • Scared
  • Studio

• Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • First
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• History will treat me right.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Right
  • Treat

• I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Movies
  • Two
  • Shades

• I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Summer

• We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Up
  • Things
  • Strange

• It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Patience

• My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Father
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Important
  • Expressing
  • Truthfully

• When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Poetry

• Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Understanding
  • Poetry
  • Inspire

• Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

  

  Novalis
  • Poetry
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  • Wounds