Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes

Oh the harsh snarl of guitar strings roaring!Heavenly distensions of our throats!Trousers stiff with dirt and love! Such whoring!Long green slimy nights: we were like stoats.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Support
  • Beauty

• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Landscape

• The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Knowledge
  • Church
  • Rules

• On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • Maintenance

• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • Job
  • Want

• In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • You
  • Phone
  • Phone Call

• I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Great
  • Business
  • Drive

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• Your body has space within you that cannot die.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Die
  • Space
  • Body

• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Famous

• If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • You
  • Nice
  • Promise

• You change the world by being yourself.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Change
  • Yourself

• As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Military
  • Problems

• According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • New
  • Virtue
  • Ethics

• Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Different
  • You
  • Know

• Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Pretty
  • Light
  • Pain

• I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'

  

  George Packer
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  

  Jayne Ann Krentz
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• I have a save file in 'Final Fantasy XII' that is 125 hours long. I have gotten into legitimate arguments over the rules governing the tapping of mana in 'Magic: The Gathering.' I don't like hugs or parties, high school sucked for me, and Nathan Fillion deemed something I wrote his 'Favorite 'Firefly' fanboy rant to date.'

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• Oh the harsh snarl of guitar strings roaring!Heavenly distensions of our throats!Trousers stiff with dirt and love! Such whoring!Long green slimy nights: we were like stoats.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Long
  • Green