People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. PICO IYER Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I s... DOUGLAS HYDE To be quite honest, the kids like it, but I personally don't. It gives more people reason to fire up... AUBIN GOPORO He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, bec... CHARLES COLES Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw. FRANK THOMAS I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet a... APPARAT I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal g... DRAKE If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I thi... HEDY LAMARR We should strive to be more like Jesus and less like ourselves. JAIME LYNNE DILLON If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.
- Johann Christoph Friedrich v... JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I, personally, participate because I have been a life-long snowmobile enthusiast and I would like to... GARY DIEHL I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I've got a big mouth, ... It's just my nature. I like to talk to people. I've found that the bigger ... DANIEL CHANDLER The program has a duration of 52 minutes. It is too short a time to say everything I would like to s... CARLOS HADDAD The program has a duration of 52 minutes. It is too short a time to say everything I would like to s... CARLOS TEBECHERANI HADDAD I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like somet... KELLI JAE BAELI I hate it when people say somebody has a "speech impediment", even if he does, because it could hurt... JACK HANDY Vincent laughed. "No, you still need to look like a Helian." "So I should burn everything... HEATHER JAMES I would like to thank those fans who have pledged their support to myself personally and to the club... MICKY ADAMS Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and ... MUHAMMAD YUNUS I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do t... WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY I think some people just like to have someone to sit down and talk to. ZANDRA BLAKE I would like to visit with people who are so interesting and so... and there are so many wonderful p... JANET RENO Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets. ALBERT J. NOCK The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. JAMIE LEE CURTIS I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know. ROLAND JOFFE I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. HENRY JAMES Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I... CANELO ALVAREZ Most people talk and then wait for the audience to ask questions -- I disagree. I think that when yo... LILYAN WILDER People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Ma... DAN FARMER Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more. ABIGAIL BUREN Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more. ABIGAIL VAN BUREN I would like to personally apologize to the people of Iraq for the actions of a small number of lead... GEOFFREY MILLER I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understan... PETER CAREY Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this gre... HARRY CONNICK JR. I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't ... MICHAEL PHELPS Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, ... SWEDISH PROVERB I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them. DOUGLAS KIRKLAND I wouldn't say I'm strict. I love to communicate with my kids, and I constantly check in and... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I like you, but I know you don't know it. I like you so much, I talk to everyone but you. And I wond... ANI DIFRANCO …It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And g... M.T. ANDERSON People say to me, 'Oh, I kill everything.' I have no patience with that. It's like a recipe just ... ELLEN ZACHOS Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love m... SWEDISH PROVERB Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more,... SWEDISH PROVERB He's not as visible as I would like him to be. I think he should be doing more PR and have a larger ... CARL COOPER I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get... ADAM HUGHES I like to be unabashed, which is an Indian trait, both emotionally and visually. It's important to h... MIRA NAIR I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Go... CAMREN BICONDOVA I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators. RUDOLPH VALENTINO I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this. DAMIEN HIRST When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someon... TAYLOR SWIFT I would like to be open with the public. I would like to not keep secrets or be careful when I talk.... ANGELINA JOLIE I'm here because I would like to give myself a good draw. ALICIA MOLIK I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I ... MAIWENN I'm an open person and I always like to communicate. JOSE MOURINHO I like you more than I would like to have a cigarette. WENDY COPE I talk of you: Why did you wish me milder? would you have me False to my nature? Rather sa... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more;<... SWEDISH PROVERB I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia. TRACY CHAPMAN Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more,... SWEDISH PROVERB The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really me... ZOOEY DESCHANEL We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. DIOGENES We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less DIOGENES I like down-to-earth people. AMOS LEE My message is that giving is very important. Giving is a Jewish thing, and I like to talk about that... ITZHAK PERLMAN Whatever piece I write and record, I feel a certain way about it, and it's really nice to run into p... EARL KLUGH My life has pretty much been devoted to educating people about what it is like to be visually impair... WILLIAM BOWMAN I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, a... GEORGE ELIOT I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'n... ERIC BETZIG I would say it's a very typical Imperial Valley swarm. I would tell people, like any earthquake in C... KATE HUTTON I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and tell... ADAM CAROLLA People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer secu... DAN FARMER If I decide to pursue a lawsuit, he'll see what a good sport I am. I didn't like the nature of that ... JOE FRANKLIN If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then... JAMES MCAVOY If we lived more from the person we would like ourselves to
be and less from the "ideal" that others... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I am learning more and more about less and less and I own everything about nothing DIMITRIS TIMOTHEATOS I couldn't play off people that I don't personally like, BOB NEWHART When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to ... ADAM CAROLLA I know the mayor feels a loyalty to those Republicans that have supported his candidacy and support ... DAVID DINKINS I didn't have my velocity and I didn't have my command, and when you don't have those two things, yo... LUKE HUDSON
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[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.
[Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als e... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffe... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, eve... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A clever man commits no minor blunders. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What they're accustomed to is no great matter,
But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.
[G... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man.
[Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Divide and command, a wise maxim;
Unite and guide, a better.
[Ger., Entzwei' und gebiete! Tuc... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Power is neither male nor female. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den T... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but fo... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a de... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For the nature of women is closely allied to art JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works goo... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.
[Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das He... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.
[Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,
Mein Herz ist schwer.] JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
[Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebe... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
[Ger., Das erste und letzte, was... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.
[Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,
Die T... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
[Ger., Die Gaben
Kommen von oben herab, in ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
[Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given;
The dearest child of Faith is Miracle
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[Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.] JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The church alone beyond all question
Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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Also unto the devil sticks.
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[Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nic... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest?... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In all things it is better to hope than to despair JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
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of prosperous days.
[Ger., Alles... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
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brights.
[Ger., Das sterbliche Gesc... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Water its living strength first shows,
When obstacles its course oppose. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Where there are no women there are no good manners JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
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the barriers of nationality.
[G... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in t... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Correction does much, but encouragement does more. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The society of women is the element of good manners. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Each one sees what he carries in his heart JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.
[Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.] JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For to give is the business of the rich.
[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.
[Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When ideas fail, words come in very handy. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE