Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

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• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
  • Falling

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Respect
  • Friend
  • Sex

• I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Know
  • Me
  • Best

• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Space
  • Guitar

• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Me
  • Nothing

• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Present

• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Guitar

• Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • First
  • Show

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Future
  • Change

• In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Career
  • City

• One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Time
  • Water
  • Red

• I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Lucky

• You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Understand
  • Interest
  • Public

• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Real
  • War
  • Political

• Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Happens
  • Blame

• My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Year
  • Name
  • Prison

• In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Beauty
  • Point

• I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Moment

• Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Moment
  • Ideals
  • Cigarette