Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
-
My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
-
The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
-
There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
-
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
-
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
-
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
-
After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
-
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
-
It is always your next move.
-
Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
-
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
-
They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
-
I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
-
I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
-
People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
-
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
-
He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.
-
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
-
You're not just playing for yourself but for your country, and that's nerve-wracking. It makes you work harder.
-
O’Hara was in his most non-stop way of talking, saying that the pictures put him in mind of Tiepolo Spanish wall-painter, c. 1750. Certain cupola frescoes. Suddenly I was working in an ancient building, a warehouse facing the Giudecca. The loft over the firehouse was transformed. It was filled with light reflected from the canal. quote in 1955
-
Contrary to Warhol's 15 minutes of fame, I think that today in front of insatiable curiosity of the crowd, we would be better off to remain secret as long as possible, work in the denser part of shadows.
-
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
