Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The present is a powerful deity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Will

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • You
  • Television
  • News

• I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Career
  • Exploring
  • Hacker

• Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Me
  • Sick
  • Saying

• If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • House
  • Nice

• I consider myself more exportant than important.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Important

• The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Sweet

• The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thinking
  • Respect
  • Democracy

• When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• I like people to have a bit of a laugh. Life is too short to not enjoy what you're doing.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • People
  • Life

• I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Pretty

• Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Up

• Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • Moon

• Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

  

  Pete Best
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Trump

• I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

  

  Christine Sinclair
  • Goals

• A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • Repertory
  • Conservatory
  • Ballets

• Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Running

• The present is a powerful deity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe