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 -
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 -
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
Mahesh Bhupathi -
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
Natasha Trethewey -
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
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
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
Olivier Theyskens -
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
Karen Kain -
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 -
I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
Victor Pinchuk
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
Edie McClurg -
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 -
I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
Samantha Shannon -
My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
Zac Brown Band -
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
R. L. Stine -
I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
Rahm Emanuel
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If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.
Kanye West -
It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.
Sheila Heti -
You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club -
The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
Nicholas Andrea Dandolos -
If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to amazing cookery bookshops. No wonder their food is good because the quality and wide range of their produce is so good. It's not fair, really.
Polly Walker -
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