Max Frisch Quotes

You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'

Max Frisch

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• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • You
  • Beginnings

• Awards are for young people. They just are.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Young
  • Awards

• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Married
  • Morality
  • Ancestors

• America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • People
  • America
  • Today

• My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Future
  • Place
  • Expectations

• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Funny
  • Red
  • Blue

• I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Why
  • May

• I've got the Xbox 360, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. I got everything you could think of.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Think
  • You
  • Everything

• I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Different
  • Military
  • Attitude

• I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Think
  • Year
  • Useful

• The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up

• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Power
  • Truth

• Were a real and effective disarmament achieved and the funds now spent in the arms race devoted to the amelioration of man's state; were we to concentrate only on the peaceful uses of nuclear knowledge, how vastly and in how short a time might we change the conditions of mankind. This should be our goal.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'

  

  Vanity

• The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Men

• How can a mother's heart feel cold or wearyKnowing her dearer self safe, sheltered, warm?How can she feel her road too dark or dreary,Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm?How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding,Our God forgot, our holy saints defied;But can a mother hear her dead child pleading,And thrust those little angel hands aside?

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • God
  • Heart
  • May

• The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Life
  • Great
  • Together

• I think in life we are constantly given choices of left turns, right turns, straight ahead and unfortunately sometimes backwards. If you find yourself going backwards, immediately do a U-turn and don’t look in the rear view mirror when facing forward.

  

  Matt Goss
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Forward

• The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Air
  • Cold
  • Sweet

• I grew up with the 'Star Wars' movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.

  

  George Eliot
  • Experience
  • Animal
  • Self

• You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'

  

  Max Frisch