Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

Topics

EnjoyYouFameRankHolyYour

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

John Deacon

StartYouNobodyWithoutOutEasier

Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?

Andrew Nikiforuk

GoalsDayTransitionSayWantOil

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

Andrew Sullivan

MindWritingThinkThinkingSomeone

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

Andy Taylor

FutureTogetherPastPeopleYouNew

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Jeff Bezos

YouKnowCompanyThingsAnswerAway

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

John Sexton

JobManipulationPhotographPrint

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Sophocles

SisterIndeedWickednessFoolishness

I suppose we are what we are, and we use the evidence to confirm what we believe.

Stewart Lee

BelieveEvidenceConfirmUseSuppose

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

ChangeProgressMistakeStrange

Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.

Jordin Sparks

CommunitySingingDoingYouDrama

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Clifford Geertz

ResearchWritingLiteratureBeen

Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'

Alissa Quart

LoyaltyBookBrandSellingFirst

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