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Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

Erich Maria Remarque

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: german
Birth: June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970

Topics

Great Darkness I Am Birds Fence Up

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

Character Power Society Moral

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

John Irving

Writing First Always Drafts Written

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.

Jefferson Davis

Justice Progress People Obstacles

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

Steve Albini

Food Best Cooking Cleaning Way Meal

A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don't know what they think.

Stephan Pastis

People Me Think Feedback Hide Know

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Fear Myself Think Feel Others First

Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.

Steven Hall

Nature Change Great Me Internet Way

I'm going to end up with a lot more money than I feel like I'm entitled to, given how hard I work.

Stewart Butterfield

Work Money End Feel More Hard

I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her.

Sissy Spacek

God Sad Me Actor She Lived

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.'

Steve Wozniak

Words Smart Speak Think Search You

Your job as a director is to study the show, understand the show, understand the vibe, the tone, the characters.

Miriam Shor

Job Understand Director Study Tone

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

Mindy Kaling

Romantic Feelings True Office Show