Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
 
					Quotes to Explore
- 
	
	There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.   
- 
	
	Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.   
- 
	
	I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.   
- 
	
	I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.   
- 
	
	It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.   
- 
	
	I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.   
- 
	
	In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.   
- 
	
	I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.   
- 
	
	The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.   
- 
	
	The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.   
- 
	
	For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.   
- 
	
	The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.   
- 
	
	I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.   
- 
	
	I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.   
- 
	
	I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.   
- 
	
	I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.   
- 
	
	Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.   
- 
	
	There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.   
- 
	
	There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying machine, or both, for commercial transportation or as weapons of war.   
- 
	
	Those people that created the cultural Marxist thoughts, one guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci, very important within the Frankfurt School, argued against the concept of Marxist Leninism, in which it was basically the revolutionary spirit where someone would say we need to rile up the lower classes and have a revolution and take over the factories.   
- 
	
	Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.   
- 
	
	All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.   
- 
	
	So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					