Max Frisch Quotes

To write is to read one's own self

Max Frisch

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• I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Life
  • My Life
  • New

• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Important
  • Service

• You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Seems

• What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Character
  • Yourself
  • Explore

• Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Up
  • New
  • Something

• But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Free
  • Enjoy
  • Exercise

• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Me
  • Write
  • Hero

• I don't do social media.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Media
  • Social
  • Social Media

• By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Thinking
  • Process
  • Kitchen

• I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

  

  Iman
  • Never
  • Child
  • Nerdy

• Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

  

  Gary Becker
  • More
  • Punishment
  • Offenders

• Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Important
  • Government
  • Constitution

• It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Ev'en Thou my breast with such blest rage inspire,As mov'd the tuneful strings of Davids Lyre

  

  Abraham Cowley

• With impassive gaze, Michael, prince of warriors, measured the extent of the disaster, and his keen intelligence penetrated its causes. The armies of the living God had taken the offensive, but by one of those fatalities in war which disconcert the plans of the greatest captains, the enemy had also taken the offensive, and the effect was evident.

  

  Anatole France
  • God
  • War
  • Taken

• That most risky and volatile of all things—a self-pitying majority.

  

  Christopher Hitchens

• I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Choices

• I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Decision
  • Emotional

• Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

  

  Chuck Todd
  • Believe

• Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

  

  Joan D. Vinge
  • Balance

• One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Work
  • Day
  • Myself

• This quarterback Weeden can drive the ball down field. He's a thing of beauty on throwing a football. His passing motion and his arm, frankly, you won't see a more gifted passer, power, accuracy, the entire aspect of it.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • Power
  • Football

• The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.

  

  David Ben-Gurion
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• To write is to read one's own self

  

  Max Frisch