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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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 -
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul -
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
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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 -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
Nadia Giosia
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.
William Wells Brown -
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
Amelia Barr -
Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
Vicki Baum -
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Will Durant -
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