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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Person Own Advantage Happens Most

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Good Learn You Manners Good Manners

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

Beautiful People Problems Manners

French girls don't care about the perfect look; we actually like when it's not perfect because that's what makes our style effortless.

Style Not Perfect Care Perfect Look

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Soren Kierkegaard

Dreams Age Old Age Youth Look Old

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

Words Man Wish Lawyers Down Years

I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.

Good Writing Fiction Something Get

Anything in between the white lines is deemed football.

DeAngelo Williams

Football White Anything Lines Deemed

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

Marriage I Am Colorado Vote Member

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.

Book Story You Back Source Going

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

Colin Greenwood

Sometimes Band Top Over See Playing

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

Communication Art Words People Think

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