Georg Brandes Quotes

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Georg Brandes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: danish
  • Birth: February 4, 1842 - February 19, 1927

Topics

KindnessGoodnessHumanBrutality

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

John Corey Whaley

PeopleGrowing UpSmallYouPlace

I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.

John Lewis

GoodPeopleFeelAmericaFindYoung

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

Star Jones

FamilyFightYouKnowDysfunctional

I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in the film reads my novel and then starts discussing the novel with someone. The idea that my book can inspire another artist and be part of that other artist's work... that's the reason I write.

Miguel Syjuco

WorkBookInspireShortSomeone

I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.

Lisa Nicole Carson

GodMeGiftIgnoreGoingSing

Where we see corruption and can make a case against it, we're being aggressive.

Josh Hawley

CorruptionAggressiveSeeAgainst

When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn't seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love.

Johnny Knoxville

LoveWomenFightPeopleMeFace

If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.

Donald Dunn

GoodSongEasyYouBadPlay

The New Gods really need to be larger than life. There's an operatic quality to them, and they need to be handled pretty carefully, or else you'll go too far and be almost like a caricature.

Cliff Chiang

LifeQualityYouGoNewNeed

Nobody has any security in loving me.

Brigitte Bardot

MeLovingSecurityNobodyAny

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

Anne Ford

PainChildWorldTryingFindKnow

It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.

Paul Wolfowitz

PurposeNiceKindCommon

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