Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
Barbra Streisand -
Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.
Safra A. Catz -
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
Leonard Susskind -
It was a little skirmish across a century.
Margery Allingham
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
Bill Vaughan -
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
Bruce Sterling -
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher -
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.
Immanuel Kant -
I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.
William Gibson -
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
William Hague
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Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
Scott Snyder -
Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
Emily Dickinson -
'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.
Scott Ellis -
For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.
Studs Terkel -
In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
Stephen Ambrose
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I think seeing is about truly looking, observing, and taking things in with an open mind. It's easy to see things at face value but some of the most beautiful things are not apparent at first glance. The works that stick with me and that I find to be most beautiful are often not aesthetically inviting right off the bat. So I think having an open mind and allowing the lines to blur between art, music, fashion, food, what have you, all leads to cultivating a much more open and enjoyable aesthetic sensibility.
Chloe Wise -
Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.
Josh Holloway -
On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.
Jennifer Donnelly -
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
Andrew Schneider -
Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.
Estelle -
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe