Robert Musil Quotes

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

Robert Musil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: November 6, 1880 - April 15, 1942

Topics

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Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

Viola Davis

WorkCharacterPeopleThinkSomeone

The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US.

Jerry A. Webman

New YorkSmallFinancialPolitical

If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.

Megan Amram

WorkPeopleGeniusYouPersonMeet

When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

John Krasinski

DayCollegeWalkingDoneGroupUp

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

Robert Griffin III

MeThinkCareerI CanTryOver

I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.

Anna D. Shapiro

MyselfPeopleMeThinkKnowKind

I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Miss Saigon,' were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of 'Little Shop of Horrors' that my sister was in.

Stephen Karam

LoveCultureSchoolSisterSeeing

There have been several television movies, 'Carrie 2,' two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, 'Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that's not really the audience.'

Sissy Spacek

TimePeopleThinkingRememberMovies

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

Steve Ross

HeartCityMeDriveChurchBack

I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.

Tom Steyer

ScienceTrustThinkRiskOverDays

I would have to say fantasy RPG and MMOs are my favorite type of games. I love 'Dark Souls II.' That game is so hard and unforgiving; if you beat that game, you have true skills.

Demetrious Johnson

LoveGameYouDarkSkillsTrue

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

David Shields

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