Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829

Topics

WordsMisunderstoodOriginalAncient

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

Joely Fisher

LoveChiliCookMakeTurkeyI Love

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

Andrew Stanton

PurposeYourselfTryingYouFall

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

Anderson Cooper

WarCareMissedWillSierraReally

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

Amelie Mauresmo

GameAskOurGettingThingTougher

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.

Steve Kanaly

TogetherMeetingMeetWayDaysShow

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Miley Cyrus

LoveMusicMeAliveBreatheI Love

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

MeDrawingBuildingsFirstSawHis

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

Joseph Rotblat

ResponsibilityRememberHumanity

If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.

Brantley Gilbert

LifeFightingDoingYouCountryGo

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Susan B. Anthony

FatherMotherHomeWifeHusbandSex

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Rick Perlstein

FailureQuestionDaysLawsThousand

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

Ninja

StoryBetterPictureYouMorePaint

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