Heinrich Boll Quotes

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

Heinrich Boll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

John Joly

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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

John Jay Chapman

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Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.

Ann Nocenti

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The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable.

Steve Alford

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We are the most powerful creatures on the planet, women.

Stacey Dash

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Hollywood pushes a liberal agenda to the rest of the country. And, whether we like it or not, Hollywood dictates the culture of the country.

Stacey Dash

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We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

Mitch McConnell

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Many of the things we do at Basecamp would be considered unusual at most companies: paying for employees' hobbies, allowing our team to work from anywhere, even footing the bill for fresh fruits and veggies in our staff members' homes.

Jason Fried

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One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun.

Delta Burke

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Family is my fun.

Brad Garlinghouse

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'Auto Music' isn't a pop record by any stretch.

Brian Reitzell

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Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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