Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
Quotes to Explore
-
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
-
Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
-
'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
-
Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
-
When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
-
I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
-
I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
-
I never said half the things I said.
-
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
-
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
-
One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
-
I care about writing music and playing my music.
-
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
-
Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.
-
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
-
If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.
-
I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
-
Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.
-
The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.
-
I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.
-
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
-
'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.
-
As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.
-
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
