Heinrich Boll Quotes

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.

Heinrich Boll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: December 21, 1917 - July 16, 1985

Topics

WorkStatisticsPlaceSummerLived

Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.

John Delaney

PastChallengesEnergyOpportunities

Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.

Andy Dunn

StoryWorthLivingEveryoneForever

Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

John Cornwell

ListeningBetterAmericanTalking

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

Megan Fox

LoveBeautifulArtPeopleMeFind

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

InspirationalPowerImaginationUs

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

John Jewel

LifeGodKnowledgeSadEndVices

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Tom Conti

GirlTravelControlDeskEverything

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.

Mary Beard

FaithMeYouMoreAskLittle

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

Michael Strahan

FamilyPeopleKnowUpStillGermany

We still have very little understanding of how we can tweak form or shape at the genetic level. We certainly haven't unlocked those secrets.

Mitchell Joachim

UnderstandingSecretsLittleShape

You have to understand who your customer is and her motivations and marry it to what's happening in the outside world.

Mindy Grossman

WorldCustomerYouUnderstandHer

I had a nice life. It had its challenges like anybody's life, I guess.

Lorelei Linklater

LifeChallengesNiceLikeAnybody

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