Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Words
  • Eye

• Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Period
  • News
  • Fact

• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Strange
  • Places
  • Far

• When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Think
  • Look

• You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Go
  • Ride

• If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Know

• There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Hope
  • Beauty
  • Look

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  

  Fanny Brice
  • World
  • Think
  • Know

• I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Film

• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Character
  • Man
  • Look

• I invested all my money in debt.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Money
  • Debt
  • Invested

• I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Money
  • Birthday
  • Bank

• Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Long
  • Father
  • Strong

• I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Art

• Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Gangsta

• Experience by itself is not science.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Itself

• I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

  

  Lorrie Moore
  • Life
  • Different
  • Character

• I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Violence

• Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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