Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
Gary Busey
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Ralph Fiennes
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
Sam Shepard
Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
Mahmoud Abbas
If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
Kate Brown
You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'
Laura Dern
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie
I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
J. H. Wyman
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
Ted Demme
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
David Hockney
Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.
Melanie Fiona Hallim
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
Jose Marti
Nothing beats hard work.
Lubna Olayan
I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is.
Nonso Anozie
It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
