Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: german
Birth: May 28, 1925 - May 18, 2012

Topics

Life Speak Thinking End Now Way

You look at 'Arrested Development' or 'Community,' we're constantly either deconstructing genre or tone. We like to say it's like being a mad scientist: you get to play in a laboratory and experiment with directions to take narrative in.

Joe Russo

Community You Look Mad Play Say

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

Joe Bonamassa

Live Sleep Breathe Guitars

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

John Irving

Writing First Always Drafts Written

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

Stephen Sprouse

Lived Eight Town Then Moved Until

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Tom Stoppard

Work Freedom Dictatorship Want Jail

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Robert Browning

God Art Day Feel Heaven Earth

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

Roger Clemens

Anger Angry Me Motivation Kind

Berlin is well on its way to becoming one of the most vibrant startup hubs in the world.

Jawed Karim

World Way Becoming Well Berlin Most

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Dean Koontz

Someone Peculiar Twist Read Wrote

I suffered from some delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Ranger donning the old Hunter boots and Barbour jacket to slosh around in mud with the Range Rover.

Christine McVie

Girl Boots Country Jacket Mud Old

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Clive Barker

Experience Chaos World Think Trying

I feel more content with what I wear. I always feel confident. I shop for my age and my body.

Peggy Lipton

Age Confident Feel Body More Always