Gunter Grass Quotes

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Gunter Grass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: October 16, 1927 - April 13, 2015

Topics

GrowthFutureStatisticsPlace

I don't just work with these kids to make them good tumblers or good dancers. I'm working with them to make them good citizens - to become taxpayers, not tax-eaters. I teach them to say please and thank you. I show them how to use a knife and fork and how to fold a napkin.

Jesse White

WorkGoodThank YouYouSayBecome

That never stops. That's what drives you: the joy and excitement of doing what you love.

Jerry Lewis

LoveJoyDoingWhat You LoveYou

Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.

John Gavin

TravelFinancialHelpWashingtonOil

The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LoveCharacterGratitudeGreatRich

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

Ann Hood

StarsEyesDayCityWritingWorld

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

Sugar Ray Leonard

FamilyParentsMeSocietySurvive

There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but my roots are in bhajans. Even when I was in school, I used to win competitions for ghazals and bhajans.

Sonu Nigam

SchoolI AmMeRootsWinSinger

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Rita Mae Brown

BookThinkExcusesYouFindWrite

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Russ Carnahan

BelieveMeetPossibleEvenBasic

There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.

Louis B. Rosenberg

WorkMedicalPeopleColdEndingYou

People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.

Deepak Chopra

PeopleThinkMeditationLikeHuge

A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.

Asma Jahangir

LifeTimeWomanHusbandChickenOut

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