Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: January 22, 1729 - February 15, 1781

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I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness.

Joan Didion

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Thank God for paper ballots.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

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I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

Michael Gove

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If I'm half as good as everybody said I am, I'm far too good to be wasting time with ordinary people. But I seem to be spending my life with ordinary people, who are the best people in the world.

Stan Lee

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I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

Mary-Louise Parker

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I find that putting my makeup on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show.

Martina McBride

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We're not alt-right, and we're not old-school, National-Review-boring Right - we're aggressive. We're in a meme world - we're in a world where you have to be catchy, punchy.

Mike Cernovich

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I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

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People could write stuff that's really offensive, but if it's written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it's just shock-value stuff, then it's not going to work, because it's not coming from a true place.

Julia Davis

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I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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Humility is truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

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When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.

Brendon Urie

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