Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
Ted Danson -
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz -
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky -
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
F. Sionil Jose -
I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
Malin Akerman
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My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
H. Robert Horvitz -
I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth -
Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.
David Autor -
I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.
Bryan Adams
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He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.
Orlando Cepeda -
In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
Umberto Boccioni -
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.
John Stuart Mill -
Nothing happens until I make it happen.
Scott Wilson -
Initially, I thought there was no way I could be a mentor. Then I realized, these kids live to be with you and their parents put their trust in you to have their kids spend hours upon hours under your tutelage. It's very humbling.
Jason Clarke