Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
Quotes to Explore
-
A novel is not a rant.
-
I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
-
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
-
Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
-
I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
-
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
-
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
-
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
-
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
-
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
-
The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
-
My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
-
I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
-
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
-
Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
-
In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
-
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
-
I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
-
What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
-
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
-
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
-
Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.
-
I feel like my art is very eclectic. I have taken my favorite things - be that costume designing, fashion sense, music and video editing - and I threw them all into one big clump. And that's what I do.
-
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
