Bertolt Brecht Quotes

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Bertolt Brecht

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BadNewsBad NewsWhoHeLaughs

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

John Aubrey

DownIdleWouldQuiteDidHow

I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

Michael Biehn

LifeAttitudeMirrorMeSayingHell

Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.

Stephen Kinzer

WaterGrowingUnderstandTurkeyFew

I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

Simon Hoggart

WorkDayMeStoryParisNews

I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.

Tony Evans

LifeFamilyBrokenCityMeMy Life

America faces very real challenges. The climate crisis, inequality, stagnant wages, student debt - the list goes on. Rather than address these serious problems, Trump uses hate-filled rhetoric to divide America by race, religion, and ancestry.

Tom Steyer

ReligionChallengesProblemsAmerica

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

Luke Harper

AmbitionWorldConquerActingBig

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.

Jon Landau

MusicSoulPeopleRootsBlackEnd

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Jon Meacham

HistoryGreatRealityClassMore

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.

Dean Winters

WalkSchoolHandNeverSeemed

In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.

Clint Smith

SchoolChildChoicesChooseChoice

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

Clive Owen

GreatPeopleYouBe TrueDoneTrue

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