Wilhelm Ostwald Quotes

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: September 2, 1853 - April 4, 1932

Topics

WorkTiredMeRestLongLost

I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

Jidenna

PurposeStrongThinkArtistKnowUs

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.

Jill McCorkle

FreedomLoyaltyThinkPageFirst

England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.

John Burroughs

WinterCoolGreenFreeSummerFrost

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

John Legend

PowerPeopleHelpHandUnfairTry

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets.

Tony Harrison

MeBlindYouFirstSeePoet

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

Tony Kushner

BeautyAccomplishmentBetterWayWho

I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.

Robin Weigert

RememberUncomfortableFeelingFirst

I'm really good at window shopping, or I'll go into a store and just choose one thing.

Mirai Nagasu

GoodWindowShoppingChooseGoJust

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

Jason Patric

MeSpeedWorthMoviesKindBoring

Conor McGregor has been a tremendous inspiration to me.

Jon Jones

MeInspirationBeenTremendous

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.

Armistead Maupin

BookPlanningInternetLearnBack

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

Ashley Judd

ThinkDownGoLazyAlwaysLittle

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