Bertolt Brecht Quotes

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Bertolt Brecht

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956

Topics

PeopleLongToo MuchTroubleLast

I would trust Lennon not only to babysit my child but to raise them. Literally, that's who I would want to raise my child.

Jessica St. Clair

TrustChildWantOnlyWouldRaise

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Johannes Brahms

HealthJealousyEnjoyTryingBad

I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.

Jenny Offill

WorldMomentsQuietWriteAgain

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

Andrei A. Gromyko

WorldEndSwordAbyssOverUp

I don't smile or talk before 10 A.M. unless it's scripted.

Melanie Scrofano

SmileTalkBeforeUnlessScripted

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

IgnoranceGentlemanBibleInspiration

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

Steve Albini

IdiotYouLookPersonShellsWay

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

BeautifulMoneyBelieveSexBuy

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

Tracy Morgan

ManPeopleAliveOutFunniestHe

Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.

Dolly Parton

FamilyWelcomeProblemsDownProtect

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

Daymond John

WorkYouWantBigCorporation

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.

Clive Davis

ParentsBrooklynGoBoyWayBeyond

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