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Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: swiss
Birth: January 5, 1921 - December 14, 1990

Topics

Possible Worst Coincidence Turn

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.

Jesse Kellerman

Science Time People Self Literature

Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we're made out of exploding stars.

Stars People Out Big Bang Big Us

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

Learning People Think Feel Doing

I've been just unsuccessful enough not to have been given a big opportunity too soon.

Opportunity Enough Big Been Just

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.

Work Coffee Simple Someone You Look

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Loneliness Explain Writer Utter

I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'

Football Gun Remember Citizen First

Everybody has lost somebody that they care about, or hopefully you haven't, but that's part of life.

Tracy Spiridakos

Life Care You Lost Somebody Part

Our church was a very spiritual church, and we were a very chosen people. The body was small, but the spirit was intense and very evident to anyone who passed by or came in.

Spiritual People Small Church Body

You look how much sugar is in a typical supermarket loaf of bread: it's a lot of sugar. It's just become one of those sugar delivery systems in our food economy.

Food You Look Bread Sugar Become

People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn't ring true, it's not true.

People Grow Common Sense Brooklyn Up

There was once a time when 'Final Fantasy' meant greatness, when seeing Square's brand on a game box meant you were about to play something special. That time has long since passed.

Time Greatness Game Brand You Play

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