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Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

Lion Feuchtwanger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: german
Birth: July 7, 1884 - December 21, 1958

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History You Teach Radio Asking Like

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler

God Day You Fall Seventy Rise

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.

John Lahr

Father Time Waiting Wait Miami

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Jean-Paul Marat

Happiness Freedom Cut Off Five Your

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

Learning Day Grow Every Day New Old

I was the first judge in the 'Indian Idol' format. The biggest risk when you adapt a format from a country in the West is how to make it your own, so I remember at the press conference for Indian 'X Factor,' the press would ask, 'Who is Simon Cowell?' And I said 'Why don't you ask Simon Cowell, 'Who is Sonu Nigam?'

Sonu Nigam

Judge Remember You Country Adapt

I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

Ronald Perelman

God I Am Me Believe Opportunities

We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.

Ruby Dee

Racism Human Realize Self-Image Much

I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and I used to get very irritated because when people heard that you came from the suburbs, they had this notion that it was very un-cool to come from there.

Ronald Frame

People Writing Remember You Early

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Ruth Rendell

Style Book Elegance You Kind Matter

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

Mary Steenburgen

Love Mom Think Thought Know Kind

I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

Jon Pardi

Three California Hours About Least

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.

Brad Paisley

Think Generation Ignore You Will