Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterImaginationAppearanceWit

Maybe we need to shelter ourselves so we see the beautiful.

Joanna Coles

BeautifulNeedSeeShelterOurselves

With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

John Burnside

ChangeWorldThinkingPlaceWayOur

When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it.

Tony McCoy

GodCommitmentRideSomeoneHorse

I'm always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn't self-doubt, you seem aggressive.

Ronnie Corbett

ConfidenceYouClassyNervousAir

I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.

Russell Crowe

ResponsibilityBraveProudThought

I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems.

Mildred Dresselhaus

PerfectExploreTransportBecause

I was dead inside.

Lorraine Bracco

DeadInside

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Donna Tartt

FunnyExperienceJobBelieveWay

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

Debi Mazar

PressThingTrulyLove-Hate

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

Christopher Nolan

CultureJobMeSeriouslyAnything

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Allen Iverson

PassionGreatRideBasketballPlay

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

William Ivey Long

WorkGreatTalentPeopleInsecurity

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