Gunter Grass Quotes

I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.

Gunter Grass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodMusicMorningBreakfastWriting

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

Michael Bloomberg

PeopleYou Can Do ItAmericaYouWho

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

John Wozniak

MotherMeUniverseBadThings Happen

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

John Roos

SkillsRunningThoseTranslate

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

John Steinbeck

ManKindOwnStepsOnlyTrap

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Mikhail Gorbachev

GoWayPossibleStartingAboveOnly

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

Monica Lewinsky

YearMouthBadRepublicanTaste

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

Colonel Sanders

ManAliveAgainstSomethingThing

The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

Claire Danes

TimeOutJustTwentiesGladPhase

Even though I retired from coaching, I still believe that is my calling.

Bobby Bowden

BelieveCoachingStillEvenCalling

If someone's a flake, I help them dig their own hole. I let the audience be the judge. And believe me, they are.

Art Bell

MeBelieveJudgeSomeoneHelpOwn

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

Apollonius of Tyana

ManTrueNobleErrorPartHis

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Arianna Huffington

TrustDemocracyPoliticalAmerica

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