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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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 -
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
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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 -
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
Miguel de Unamuno -
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
Whittaker Chambers -
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.
Northrop Frye -
Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.
Wendy Doniger -
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.
Wendy Lesser
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle -
I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.
Sam Rockwell -
Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
Rumi -
I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.
Catherine Zeta-Jones -
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.
Bonnie Friedman -
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe