Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.

Jesse Kellerman

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I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

Max Schneider

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I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

Stephen Hopkins

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When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

Trey Parker

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I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

Michael Weatherly

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Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he's led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses.

Mike Barnicle

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In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.

Michael Robotham

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Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Jude Law

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Around 17 to 20 years, I became, myself, a poacher. And I wanted to do it, because - I believed - to continue my studies. I wanted to go to university, but my father was poor, my uncle even. So, I did it. And for three to four years, I went to university. For three times, I applied to biomedical science, to be a doctor. I didn't succeed.

Corneille Ewango

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You're going to get flak if you tell the wrong joke, but it's still the wrong joke. Give the wrong speech, you take it on the chin.

Brad Paisley

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I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

Brian Wilson

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Anthony Burgess

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