Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

Erich Maria Remarque

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• Cigarette
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• I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Home
  • Want
  • Europe

• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Cowboy
  • Hat

• Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Eyes
  • Trust
  • Flame

• Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Society

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Business
  • House
  • Parents

• There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Women
  • Story
  • Daughter

• In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Up
  • Black
  • Sixties

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Potential
  • Truth Is

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Night
  • Jazz

• The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Me

• There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Generation
  • Passionate
  • Empowering

• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Movies
  • Television
  • Shows

• As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Different
  • Writing

• When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

  

  Dave Brubeck
  • Freedom

• But woman's grief is like a summer storm,Short as it violent is.

  

  Joanna Baillie
  • Summer
  • Grief
  • Storm

• I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Comedy

• My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Thought
  • Childhood
  • Fact

• At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • School
  • Storm
  • Cigarette