Hermann Broch Quotes

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Hermann Broch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: November 1, 1886 - May 30, 1951

Topics

LiveSeaThoughtSingleWouldWho

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

Jimmy Nail

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My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.

Jesmyn Ward

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I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

Jeff Ament

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The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

John Polkinghorne

LifeWorldYearEarthEvolution

You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two. 'How many generals or bankers?' Two or three. 'But how many writers?' 850 or so.

John Ralston Saul

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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Ambrose Bierce

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My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

Robert Wilson

New YorkPeopleWorldYouNewWant

Training has always been top level. No matter if it's at a World Cup or not, training's been really good and at a high level.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

Juice Newton

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Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

Douglas Rushkoff

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Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

Clifford Geertz

ThinkImportantKindBiasMoreUs

I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.

Anne Dudley

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