Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Quotes

The account of a man who sells his shadow is in actual fact the life story of a persecution complex, that is to say, the paranoid narration of a man who through one event or another is suddenly made aware of his infinite smallness and at the same time finds the means by which to deceive the world in general, concerning this discovery.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Love

• The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Want
  • Question
  • Show

• I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Reality
  • Comedy
  • Star

• Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Bi-coastal

• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Child
  • Ship

• Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Country
  • Future

• The unspoken word never does harm.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Never
  • Word
  • Harm

• If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • She
  • Peace

• So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War

• 'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • People
  • She
  • Nature

• There's nothing worse in television than what I call 'poor man's Jerry Bruckheimer.'

  

  James Watkins

• You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Character
  • Guy

• I simply loved education. I mean, I always loved acting as well. It really was a major passion for me, but one I felt I could only fully explore once I'd completed my degree.

  

  Jodhi May
  • Education
  • Passion
  • Explore

• A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.

  

  Algernon Blackwood
  • Time
  • Strong

• Generally speaking, the business of music streaming is treacherous at best: Consumers don't seem to want to pay big money for access to digital music services, so companies must keep the fees low.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Business

• Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Weapon
  • Distractrion

• Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Good
  • Dream

• What inspires me is the power of human potential... the human potential to evolve in our lives, and for profound healing. It's always been there but it's become somewhat obscure to us given the stressful, fast-paced modern culture in which we live. I'm also inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Culture
  • Healing
  • Transformation

• I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.

  

  Eliot Wigginton
  • Children
  • Discovery
  • Accomplishment

• Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Discovery
  • Ethics
  • Concept

• The account of a man who sells his shadow is in actual fact the life story of a persecution complex, that is to say, the paranoid narration of a man who through one event or another is suddenly made aware of his infinite smallness and at the same time finds the means by which to deceive the world in general, concerning this discovery.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Shadow
  • Discovery
  • Event