Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
-
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
-
Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
-
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
-
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
-
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
-
My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
-
'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
-
To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
-
I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
-
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
-
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
-
I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
-
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
-
I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
-
I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.
-
If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
-
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
-
I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.
-
I don't care more about '13' because it's in the Olivier than I did about 'Cock' in a 100-seat studio. They both matter because it's still a person sat there watching your play. And the play has to be good enough - because there are a hundred other writers out there who deserve to have their play on instead.
-
Brand-wise, I love Doc Martens, Topshop, All Saints, and Lord & Taylor.
-
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
-
As an artist, I'm very used to waking up and sort of not knowing what my day's going to be and not knowing where my next paycheck is going to come from.
-
What's it to you if I love you?
