Ernst Toller Quotes

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

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• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Friends
  • Soul

• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

  

  Kanye West
  • Great
  • Art
  • Pain

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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  • Important
  • Why

• I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Me
  • Saying
  • Newspapers

• My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Saying

• You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Distance

• Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

  

  Irvine Welsh

• There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Monday
  • Tuesday

• Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.

  

  Jay Parini
  • True
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Time
  • Strong

• It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

  

  Bill Paxton
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• As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

  

  Ann Rinaldi
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• The use of crypto-currency as a surrogate for the ruble in trading in goods and services, in our opinion, has a risk of undermining the circulation of money.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Money
  • Opinion
  • Risk

• I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

  

  Christopher Atkins
  • Movie
  • Vampire

• I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes

• I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • World
  • Children
  • Nature

• A great deal of her obscurity and cant, Tenar had begun to realize, was mere ineptness with words and ideas. Nobody had ever taught her to think consecutively. Nobody had ever listened to what she said. All that was expected, all that was wanted of her was muddle, mystery, mumbling. She was a witchwoman. She had nothing to do with clear meaning.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • She
  • Words

• A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Writing
  • Strong
  • Words

• I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

  

  Ernst Toller
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