Von Hofmannsthal Quotes

#1. I love OneRepublic, The Script, All Time Low. I love pretty much every genre. I love the Rolling Stones and Elvis.

Ross Lynch

#2. How we feel is how we want to be heard.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#3. We both look mournfully in the window as we pass, though I'd sworn to myself that I wouldn't. Nothing says orphans like two kids breaking their necks looking at trays of November cakes and platters of shaped cookies and lovely soft loaves of bread still steaming the window they're next to.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#5. America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

James Altucher

#6. There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

Big Sean

#7. Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

Jonathan Franzen

#8. To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#9. The activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#10. Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#11. Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#12. Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#13. The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#14. I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#15. Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#16. Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#17. First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#18. Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#19. Comin' from the school of hard knocks,
Some perpetrate ... they drink Clorox.
Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact
The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

Chuck D

#20. We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#21. To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#22. Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

Jim Bakker

#23. I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

Rick Scott

#24. The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#25. It turns out that trying to ignore somebody is about the most, exhausting thing in the world.

Sarina Bowen

#26. Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#27. The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#28. In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?

Michael Hyatt