Ernst Toller Quotes

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Ernst Toller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: December 1, 1893 - May 22, 1939

Topics

TruthUsHearWhichCouldSlogans

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

Jhonen Vasquez

WatchesPersonSittingWhyNever

Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.

Joe Torre

TimeManOrganizationToughLongHe

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

Roseanne Barr

FunPeopleFamousWantMeetEat

I was always lonesome. The only time I felt accepted or wanted was when I was on stage performing. I guess the stage was my only friend: the only place where I could feel comfortable. It was the only place where I felt equal and safe.

Judy Garland

FriendTimeFeelPlaceComfortable

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

Jonathan Dimbleby

OpinionEnoughEasyMoreTesting

I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.

Debra Granik

LifeKindnessPassionPeopleLooking

After 9/11, there was so much distress in America that it led to an inter-cultural breakdown. Some of our communities were targeted. Many of our adults shut themselves off from other cultures. I tried to bring children of Indian and other cultures together in my literature.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

ChildrenTogetherAmericaLiterature

It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.

Christian Slater

WorkParentsWorldYouHideDark

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

Constance Marie

FamilyMotherBecauseLoudMostly

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Constance Baker Motley

WorldViewLivingHarlemBroadened

Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.

Anthony Zerbe

WorkWantUnderstandMindsPoet

I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact.

Suzi Quatro

BrainRockRareBecauseStillThose

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