Ernst Toller Quotes

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

Ernst Toller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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It is true that the gameplay for 'Orcs&Elves' was designed around the limitations of mobile phones, and that if we were starting completely from scratch for the DS, we would probably do things a bit differently, but the bottom line is that when we sit a random DS player down with the game, they have a lot of fun.

John Carmack

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I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.

Jennifer Pahlka

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Throughout my scientific career, my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental skill made major contributions to the work; she has eased for me beyond measure the difficulties of communication that accompany deafness; her encouragement and fortitude have been my strongest supports.

John Cornforth

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When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.

Meg Wolitzer

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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Maya Angelou

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The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

Robert Kennedy

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I've worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.

Matthew Nable

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It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

Angie Stone

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I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Josephus Daniels

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'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter.

Jonathan Kozol

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My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

Brian K. Vaughan

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