Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Day
  • Everyday

• In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Game
  • Kind

• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Think
  • Single
  • Better

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• Actors make less than you think.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Think
  • You
  • Less

• I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Water

• I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Career
  • Taken
  • Enough

• Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Imagination

• When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Child
  • Romantic
  • Temptation

• I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • World
  • Money
  • Myself

• I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • Country
  • Reading

• Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Community
  • Heaven
  • Step

• A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Earth

• Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Fear
  • Health
  • Positive

• The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Perform
  • Gig
  • Fantastic Time

• I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Way
  • Growing

• Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Curiosity
  • Step
  • Wings