Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Important
  • Me
  • Influence

• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Tears

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Family
  • American
  • House

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Success

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • People
  • High
  • Feel

• When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Important
  • Artist

• Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Sorrows

• Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Love
  • Hope

• If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature
  • Bird

• A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • Why
  • Nature

• Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Man