Gunter Grass Quotes

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

Gunter Grass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

Jo Brand

TravelNightDarkWayMoreSeems

Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman.

Jensen Ackles

MindDiePlayRightGuyBatman

If we are going to remake society in the image of the fight against terrorism and put that secret fight at the heart of our democratic order - which is the way we're heading - we need to discuss it, and in public.

John Lanchester

HeartFightSocietyTerrorismWay

The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

Jean-Luc Godard

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There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

Michael Carbonaro

FunnyPeopleBelieveEnoughMagic

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

Tony Hillerman

HumanityTrySeeReflectI SeeMake

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.

Robin S. Sharma

PowerTimeGrowYouDaysSomething

In the time it takes to heat a TV dinner, Clinton had convinced me that he was the smartest person in the room and that I was the center of his attention. In the next 25 years, I would see countless others fall just as quickly to the Clinton Touch.

Ron Fournier

TimeMeDinnerAttentionFallHeat

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

Michelle Kwan

LoveMusicMyselfMeIceSkating

I'm not a grassroots organizer; that is clear. I believe in a division of labor. I'm not trained to organize the grassroots, and grassroots has to come from the grassroots.

Mohamed ElBaradei

BelieveLaborI BelieveDivision

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Don Marquis

WorkHard WorkManRichYouHard

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country.

Arto Lindsay

WorkPeopleIdeasCountryKindOut

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