Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
E. M. Forster -
I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts -
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim -
I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
Barry Humphries -
A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
J. J. Watt -
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
Adam Cohen
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie -
There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
Maisie Williams -
There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
Kate Moss -
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie -
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul -
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
M.I.A. -
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
Laura Dern -
The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
Zhang Zhidong -
Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
Viktor Orban -
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
Ralph Nader -
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Ralph Steadman
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There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.
Wanda Koop -
You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?
Ian Bogost -
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe