Famous quotes containing the words general, public and/or license:
“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)
“Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)