Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Hollywood

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Together

• Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Like
  • Choice

• There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Money
  • Win
  • Choose

• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Think
  • Daughter
  • Wants

• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Mother

• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Congress

• When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Space
  • Trust
  • Lucky

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Gun
  • Lose
  • Worst

• Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

  

  Alcuin
  • World
  • Heart
  • Art

• Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Animal
  • Cancer
  • Goodness

• All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.

  

  Meg Cabot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Life
  • Love
  • Planet

• Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht

• Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Capital Of The World