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George Grosz Quotes

In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.

George Grosz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: german
Birth: July 26, 1893 - July 6, 1959

Topics

Home Time War Me End Observation

Players alone don't win championships. It takes an entire organization. Someone has to acquire the players. Someone has to coach them. Someone has to generate revenue to pay them. But at the end of the day, the players are the ones who put their minds and bodies on the line to win.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Alone Day Organization Win End Line

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

Sue Hubbell

Farming Intellectuals

When I started on the London circuit in 1989, nationwide there were about 150 to 200 people that were what you could call alternative comedians - that weren't club comics. Now, last year when the Laughing Horse chain of clubs held a new acts competition, a thousand people entered. So, there are 800 people more.

Stewart Lee

Competition People Horse Year You

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys.

Robbie Robertson

Guitar Feel Group Lucky Band Singer

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

Rod Stewart

Rock Star Rock Standards Pretty Star

Some stimulus is not a bad thing.

Ron Johnson

Bad Some Thing Bad Thing Stimulus

By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don't look shocked - I wasn't the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T'Pau as my walk-on music.

Miranda Hart

Music Age Wise Start Thought Better

Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it.

Milton Berle

Work Thought Joke Used Would Like

There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there? Well, I'm turned on by that kind of stuff.

Jonathan Demme

Today Time World Story Country Kind

I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.

Alistair Brownlee

Doctor Medicine Become Studying Did

The genome could be thought of as a kind of piano with twenty-five thousand keys. In some cases, a few keys may be out of tune, which can cause the music to sound wrong. In others, if one key goes dead the music turns into a cacophony, or the whole piano self-destructs.

Richard Preston

Music Key Thought Wrong Kind Dead

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

Marilynne Robinson

Family Grandfather More Intuition