Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln

Carl von Clausewitz

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• I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Marketing
  • Selfish

• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • You
  • Feminism

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Simple
  • Ending

• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Hate
  • Party
  • Slavery

• When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Fun

• Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Call
  • Phone

• It is my passion to direct movies.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Passion
  • Movies
  • Direct

• I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Teenage
  • Prude

• To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Broken
  • Horse

• A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Time
  • True
  • Space

• Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Work
  • Looking

• The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Movie
  • Freedom
  • Challenge

• I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Environment
  • I Was Raised

• We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Writers

• You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Real
  • Details
  • Stores

• No, I've never played baseball in my life.

  

  Jay Hernandez
  • Life
  • Baseball

• I suppose I have a concern for this extraordinary, beautiful, amazing, exciting, taxonomically brilliant world that we live in, but we keep fucking it up all the time.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln

  

  Carl von Clausewitz