Georg Brandes Quotes

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

Georg Brandes

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Family
  • May
  • Home

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Thought
  • Pleasure
  • Labor

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Music
  • Different
  • Reality

• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Doing
  • Looking

• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • America
  • Community
  • Destiny

• Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Faith
  • Dreams

• I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Learning

• The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • People
  • Know
  • Brain

• The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Over
  • August
  • Closer

• It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Black
  • Earth

• I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Risk

• Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn’t vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Dad

• I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

  

  Brian Wilson

• I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Oh, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped and chawed the buttered toast They gave us for our tea.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Time
  • Tea

• Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

  

  Jamie Parker
  • People
  • World

• In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Friends
  • Imagination
  • Conversation

• I don't know why I go to extremes.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Why
  • Know
  • Extremes

• Miss Parry was gazing at this scene, in an attempt to dispel the mental indigestion occasioned by reading thirty consecutive essays on the pontificate of Leo X.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Scene
  • Occasion
  • Essays

• We cannot have four more years apologizing to enemies and abandoning our friends. America needs to be strong for the world to be safe, and on the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength.

  

  Mike Pence
  • Abandon
  • Apologizing
  • Be Strong

• The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

  

  Georg Brandes