Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Think
  • Me
  • Gangster

• Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Action
  • Wonder

• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Down
  • Kid
  • WIld

• Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Cool
  • Chance

• I can never really enjoy being famous.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Never
  • Enjoy
  • Famous

• We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Light
  • Years
  • Competition

• I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Myself

• I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Think
  • Chance
  • Isolation

• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Something
  • Feminist
  • Jewish

• Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respect as broadcasters.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Like

• When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Up
  • History
  • Negative

• Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Change
  • Ideas

• For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Know
  • Best
  • Dance

• I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Family
  • Care

• I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products?

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Time
  • Challenge

• I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nature

• In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• If I had a crush on a guy, my tactic was to tell them I had a crush on them. And they always thought it was super-cute, so it usually worked in my favor!

  

  Leven Rambin
  • Cute
  • Crush
  • Tactics

• It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

  

  John Burnham Schwartz

• I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.

  

  Louise Post

• Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe