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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• 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.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Unique

• 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.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • World
  • Best
  • Talent

• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Me
  • Years
  • Drafts

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God
  • Society

• I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Family
  • Farmers
  • Budhana

• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movie
  • Look
  • Shoes

• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Real
  • War
  • Peace

• 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.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• 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.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Ride
  • Australia
  • Motorcycle

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Long
  • Play

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Myself
  • Act
  • Others

• 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.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Soul
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Respect

• Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Ambiguity

• You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Death
  • Man
  • Hero

• To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life better.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • People
  • Life
  • Service

• In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

  

  Bill Laswell
  • Music
  • House
  • Quality

• 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.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Quality
  • Spirit
  • Shakespeare