Otto Dix Quotes

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

Otto Dix

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• I love my wife, I love my kids.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Wife

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Parents
  • Reason

• Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Citizen

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Age

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Christmas

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music
  • Strong

• I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Driving

• The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Energy
  • Perfect
  • Competition

• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War