Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
-
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
-
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
-
I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
-
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
-
Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
-
Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
-
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
-
My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
-
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
-
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
-
We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
-
You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
-
Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
-
In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
-
During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
-
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
-
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
-
Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.
-
You don't have to be too bright to get into real estate.
-
Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
-
If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.
-
Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
