Georg Brandes Quotes

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

Georg Brandes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HomeWorldValuesThenFigures

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Joey Adams

FitnessExerciseUsGetFarFact

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Robert Morgan

PerspectiveNostalgiaDistanceOnly

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

Anna Neagle

WinterRainSunFlowersYearLong

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Michael Birch

DayMindGameComputersThinking

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

John Thorn

GameDyingSeventiesWoeMuch

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

Stephanie Beacham

FearLiveYouSkinCancer

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

Tony Kushner

MeInfluenceYouNashvilleStructure

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

Tom Wolfe

GreatYearBadMy OwnNeverOwn

This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854.

Robert Toombs

PoliticalPartyExcitementPosition

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.

Ruth Rendell

WritingFeelKnowSaidWhyBecause

Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed.

Michael Korda

ChildhoodNobodyEmergeCouldMGM

I worked a full-time job at a place call Caraustar. We recycle paper, then through recycled paper, we take it and we make V board out of it. If you buy a TV, a new couch, you see these little V boards that make like a V.

Demetrious Johnson

JobYouPlaceNewSeeOut

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