Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
-
It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
-
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
-
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
-
You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'
-
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
-
Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
-
Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
-
Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
-
You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
-
There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only 'hooking,' while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing - and there was a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.
-
What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!
-
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.
-
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?
-
Time steals from us the capacity to be smitten, does it not? It slowly but surely washes away all your enthusiasm and deposits uncertainty in its place.
-
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
-
I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
-
People over-purchased in 2000, ... So they did not need to purchase in 2001 to keep up with Internet traffic growth. But this over capacity is limited to the next few quarters.
