Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
Quotes to Explore
-
My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
-
We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
-
I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
-
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
-
Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
-
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
-
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
-
I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!
-
Dancers are the athletes of God.
-
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
-
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
-
If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.
-
As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.
-
I think enjoying each other in a creative way is usually a result of when you're doing something that might be problematic - might be a little difficult to uncover. I've done it once in a stage production; we came in for two days and, just as an experiment, the director had us reading each other's roles. You hear another voice interpreting a line that maybe you were having trouble with. It can be very helpful. But we weren't really in the kind of situation where that was necessary.
-
Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.
-
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
-
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
-
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
