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An August heritage / August Wilson and The Pittsburgh Cycle
AUGUST WILSON Like the city of Venice, everything has been said about August Wilson, but what demands repetition i...
NICHOLAS MARTIN The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.
SAUL WILLIAMS I have a problem trusting Americans because I've been in the custody of Americans for four years, di...
BINYAM MUHAMMAD the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past...
SAUL WILLIAMS I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.
KATORI HALL We have been so close to beating the Americans in the past two Olympic finals.
JAN STIRLING I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.
NOBUO UEMATSU Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson have both been writing for a long time. In 30 years, will write...
TONY BRADMAN The emissions from cars and trucks have been a big problem for the past 40 years.
JANICE NOLEN Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
ALAN DUNDES We've been known for our depth for the past few years.
JEFF LOWELL Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promi...
JOHN YARMUTH There's no reason for him to come here and jump on black men who have been held down for years.
BILL COSBY There's been a black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years.
FRANKLIN GRAHAM Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver cou...
CHRIS ROCK I'm hoping the backlash is over. We've been going through that for the past eight years.
DARIUS RUCKER We've been preparing since last August. We gave up sleeping about two years ago.
CINDY TOKARZ Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resist...
JEAN PIAGET For the past 10 to 12 years I've been preparing for this position.
DR. EILEEN ELY This is a black day. In effect, the Americans have won.
IAN MORRISON I've been an addict for years. I can remember them in black and white. Is that possible?
GRACE RUDOLPH I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because s...
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the sta...
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR For more than 20 years we have known that black Americans receive a different level of care than whi...
ASHISH JHA All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given t...
MUHAMMAD ALI I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR By the time UTEP won the championship, we had been recruiting and playing against black ballplayers ...
BRUCE LARSON There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war
WILL DURANT For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
C.S. LEWIS In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going the...
CYNTHIA JOHNSON We're underperforming the nation and have been ... for the past three years. The Ohio economy is dra...
BILL LAFAYETTE It was probably a 380 (foot) shot.
JOE ARCHULETA The past three years have been the most destructive in the Brazilian Amazon's history
GEORGE MONBIOT I would say quite clearly that white Americans can no longer deny the plight of black Americans,
BILL BRADLEY The past four years have been a continuous electoral campaign to sweeten the waters.
ZOLTAN TOROK I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER I've been writing this record for the past five years, and I've written about things that happened d...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ...
GARY BAUER Black Betty is a wonderful tradition [that's been] going on for years and we should keep it that way...
JULIA KNIGHT For the past 14 years I have been wearing the Maple Leaf on my jersey and it's always been an honor,...
DANIELLE GOYETTE American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Cli...
EMILIA CLARKE Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
RAND PAUL I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 i...
LEA MICHELE It's been a steady decline over the past 28 years that I've been with the agency.
RON ANGLIN African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced ...
TRACIE THOMS Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't b...
ANDREW YOUNG This is perhaps the first generation of minorities that have a full and equal shot at the American D...
DAN OWENS Yet for almost 40 years, the Catholic story has been reported in starkly black-and-white terms.
GEORGE WEIGEL I've been wearing black pants and green shirts now for like thirteen years. It works.
PETER STEELE White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black ...
STEVE ERICKSON Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her voca...
ROB SHEFFIELD Seventy (million), 75 million doses typically have been enough vaccine in years past.
LOLA RUSSELL There have been problems for decades, but it's been better in the past couple of years. One of the r...
ELMAR MAEDER Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
JILL LEPORE 2005 was my best year ever. Although for the past few years I've been able to say that every year.
BARRY BAKER That's the list we've been seeing for the past three to four years. These are the ones that are most...
CAMILLE LUCKENBAUGH I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and ...
DENNIS CAMPBELL I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and ...
DENNIS CAMPBELL I look back, and I have to say it's been fun. The past three years, it's been awesome. It was a good...
CHAD HETTERMANN There have been a couple different families that have come through the home in the past years so it ...
DANIELLE SAUTTER One forgets that before August, there was a very limited literature for black actors. August created...
CAREY PERLOFF We are very fortunate very to have the best person for this job be someone who has been on our staff...
GENE BLEYMAIER This contract is a significant win for us. To be awarded for the good work we have done for them in ...
CLYDE HUTCHISON Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
BOB GELDOF We've been improving OLN consistently and relatively under the radar for the past couple of years.
GAVIN HARVEY We have been so close to beating the Americans in the past two Olympic finals. And this year we want...
JAN STIRLING There have been over 10,000 (gays and lesbians) discharged just in the past 10 years alone.
ALEX NICHOLSON Had it not been for these (government) programs, the number of uninsured would have increased even m...
KATHLEEN STOLL Our boys have been knocking on the door the past few years. Hopefully, this is the year.
JAY SCHMIDT It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I&#...
LESLIE NIELSEN What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to...
CHARLES S. DUTTON Since the allegations emerged on 27 August they have been confined to barracks.
RACHEL EKLOU The past three years have been a very large disturbance in the climate force. The Pacific is really ...
BILL PATZERT Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
ALPHONSO JACKSON The Petaluma Health Care District would have been sorely pressed to match what St. Joseph has done f...
DAYMON DOSS I have sort of been holding my breath for the past two years waiting to see how this film is going t...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about lif...
BILLY PORTER It's been busier than in the past few years.
ALAN JUSTAD Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly ...
MICHAEL BURGESS It takes a while for this (fungi) to get down into the soil, and they (Utah ski resorts) have only b...
HENRY NOWAK It's an honor, especially considering how many great players there have been in the past 25 years.
JOCELYN FOREST Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been...
MEREDITH WHITNEY Beijing has been accusing the U.S. of hegemony over the past few days. But that rhetoric is targeted...
JIN ZHONG It takes a while for this (fungus) to get down into the soil, and they (Utah ski resorts) have only ...
HENRY NOWAK I'm 24 years old, and for the past three-plus years, we've been playing music for a living. It doesn...
DAVE ELKINS We have been working with sufferers for the past 30 years. Yet parts of this article seem to suggest...
LAURA SERCOMBE This [has] been going on for years. The psychiatric model [of the past] has been mainstreamed. And n...
DAVID OAKS The Hatfield tragedy was a terrible event for everyone involved. Lessons have been learnt and the ra...
IAN MCALLISTER Israel has been denying Palestinian self-determination, Palestinian statehood for the past 50 years....
MAHDI ABDEL HADI Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the p...
T.K. NALIAKA I don't recall one case in Newport News since I've been here (for the past four years).
LOU THURSTON They have been working with our district for the past two years informing and helping our students o...
FRANK MURPHY [Watching a fellow actor direct for the first time was] an education ... I feel that for the past 16...
ELIJAH WOOD Decades before President Richard Nixon bet his re-election on winning the Dixiecrat vote, Wilson wor...
GREG GRANDIN In the past 10 years, under the old rules, cable companies have been virtual monopolies and their ra...
JEFFREY MAZZELLA Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and interna...
PETE ROZELLE For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or durin...
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your...
AUGUST WILSON I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to lif...
AUGUST WILSON I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black American...
AUGUST WILSON I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a ...
AUGUST WILSON Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. ...
AUGUST WILSON Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the c...
AUGUST WILSON Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your...
AUGUST WILSON Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the c...
AUGUST WILSON I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reaso...
AUGUST WILSON I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, Februar...
AUGUST WILSON I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy fro...
AUGUST WILSON In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alc...
AUGUST WILSON How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.
AUGUST WILSON Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, ...
AUGUST WILSON I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you trea...
AUGUST WILSON I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it....
AUGUST WILSON We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things ...
AUGUST WILSON I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like thi...
AUGUST WILSON Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; maste...
AUGUST WILSON Black actors are mostly locked out of the house, and there is something dreadfully wrong with that,
AUGUST WILSON It's not like poker: You can't throw your hand in. I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.
AUGUST WILSON Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude t...
AUGUST WILSON Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an...
AUGUST WILSON The harder you try to hold onto them, the easier it is for some gal to pull them away.
AUGUST WILSON I feel sort of embarrassed I don't go to plays, but I can't keep the characters straight. I feel I s...
AUGUST WILSON All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand ...
AUGUST WILSON To my observation, the black middle class has failed to return the expertise and sophistication and ...
AUGUST WILSON Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to...
AUGUST WILSON When blacks made purchases in any store, they weren't given paper bags; instead, they had to carry o...
AUGUST WILSON A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a ...
AUGUST WILSON From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered withou...
AUGUST WILSON The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye... On stage, you...
AUGUST WILSON Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
AUGUST WILSON I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know ve...
AUGUST WILSON Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If y...
AUGUST WILSON All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand a...
AUGUST WILSON It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself...
AUGUST WILSON I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.
AUGUST WILSON We are running out of energy, mental energy, ... We need to generate something new, for ourselves.
AUGUST WILSON Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
AUGUST WILSON An August heritage / August Wilson and The Pittsburgh Cycle
AUGUST WILSON Gem of the Ocean,
AUGUST WILSON My plays are talky; I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American soci...
AUGUST WILSON Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your...
AUGUST WILSON You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, and you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But th...
AUGUST WILSON I need a woman that fits in my hand.
AUGUST WILSON I don't have a musical background. But I do enjoy all kinds of music. It's an expression of the huma...
AUGUST WILSON You have to make your own definition of yourself. That's crucial. When I do interviews, I am expecte...
AUGUST WILSON I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other...
AUGUST WILSON I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
AUGUST WILSON I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is...
AUGUST WILSON When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi...
AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
AUGUST WILSON I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s ...
AUGUST WILSON Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
AUGUST WILSON I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human...
AUGUST WILSON [Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an int...
AUGUST WILSON Writing has definitely been a refuge for me, something I needed to do in order to survive.
AUGUST WILSON I feel free, man,
AUGUST WILSON The fact that he was a self-made man, that he was a lieutenant in the army and became the emperor, I...
AUGUST WILSON [Reviewing the play's Broadway premiere for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that in] Ma Rainey,...
AUGUST WILSON I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.
AUGUST WILSON I'm glad I finished the cycle [of plays],
AUGUST WILSON I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.
AUGUST WILSON I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!
AUGUST WILSON I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
AUGUST WILSON Many is the time I looked at my daddy and seen him staring off at his hands. I got a little older I ...
AUGUST WILSON it was as far away from New York as I could get.
AUGUST WILSON [With the cycle done and] Radio Golf ... a war between coffin makers and undertakers, Death taking a...
AUGUST WILSON He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children? If it's just me...
AUGUST WILSON The Piano Lesson.
AUGUST WILSON For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I...
AUGUST WILSON There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl...
AUGUST WILSON What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a glob...
AUGUST WILSON I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than i...
AUGUST WILSON You can only close if you opened.
AUGUST WILSON American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have...
AUGUST WILSON I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.
AUGUST WILSON Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything righ...
AUGUST WILSON Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and a...
AUGUST WILSON My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that ...
AUGUST WILSON I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ...
AUGUST WILSON Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I ...
AUGUST WILSON Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sur...
AUGUST WILSON I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch ...
AUGUST WILSON Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.
AUGUST WILSON Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
...
AUGUST WILSON In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome...
AUGUST WILSON I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade...
AUGUST WILSON My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your p...
AUGUST WILSON Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
AUGUST WILSON Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitu...
AUGUST WILSON All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one ha...
AUGUST WILSON All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
AUGUST WILSON My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.
AUGUST WILSON My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Barak...
AUGUST WILSON I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'...
AUGUST WILSON The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural resp...
AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
AUGUST WILSON Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.
AUGUST WILSON I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.
AUGUST WILSON You not the only one who's got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, ...
AUGUST WILSON If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.
AUGUST HECKSCHER I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original...
BILLE AUGUST People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are &#...
AUGUST KROGH I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentimen...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman b...
AUGUST STRINDBERG The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love
AUGUST STRINDBERG People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of al...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard a...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
AUGUST STRINDBERG What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, in...
AUGUST HARE Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
AUGUST HARE Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
AUGUST HARE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
AUGUST HARE We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the d...
AUGUST BEBEL Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
AUGUST BEBEL Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization
AUGUST BEBEL We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the d...
AUGUST BEBEL We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which...
AUGUST KROGH We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways wi...
BILLE AUGUST Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that a...
BILLE AUGUST Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so ...
BILLE AUGUST It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I ...
BILLE AUGUST It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important s...
BILLE AUGUST I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical relea...
BILLE AUGUST I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole ...
BILLE AUGUST I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in...
BILLE AUGUST He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original...
BILLE AUGUST From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
BILLE AUGUST I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant thems...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, b...
JOHN AUGUST Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, b...
JOHN AUGUST post-apocalyptic fantasy.
JOHN AUGUST We wanted to make a version that wasn't so disturbing that you couldn't put it in a family movie,
JOHN AUGUST On the surface, she appears to be a monster but in fact she is kind and sweet and misunderstood.
JOHN AUGUST We were not ready to play. The matches we won, everybody contributed and the most we lost everybody ...
DON AUGUST We challenged New Trier a little bit in the second game. New Trier is just a little better than us r...
DON AUGUST To their credit they never quit. It was one of those frustrating nights where we kept shooting ourse...
DON AUGUST We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we bac...
DON AUGUST It's not as if he didn't understand that much of his behavior was driven by desperation and self-hat...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical r...
BILLE AUGUST There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but...
AUGUST KROGH It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at...
AUGUST KROGH He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for tal...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and ...
AUGUST KROGH There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
AUGUST SANDER The mob could begin to rule in a few days if these people do not get more food and water. I think it...
AUGUST PILLSBURY I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.
AUGUST HECKSCHER We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have pr...
AUGUST HANNING As new developments they present new dangers.
AUGUST HANNING I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
J.M. AUGUST The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained wh...
AUGUST KROGH Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is e...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
AUGUST KROGH During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of C...
AUGUST KEKULé You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and fra...
J.M. AUGUST Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth.
AUGUST KEKULé The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced b...
AUGUST KROGH That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
BILLE AUGUST Doesn't matter how near; Doesn't matter how far; One thing is clear; I love you wherever you are
AUGUST LINDBERG The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small num...
AUGUST KROGH I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an...
BILLE AUGUST The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I me...
BILLE AUGUST What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect t...
AUGUST STRINDBERG A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point o...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I dream, therefore I exist.
AUGUST STRINDBERG The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a numb...
AUGUST KROGH In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practi...
AUGUST KROGH The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the a...
AUGUST KROGH In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of...
AUGUST KROGH In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combin...
AUGUST KROGH Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the syst...
AUGUST KROGH In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to s...
AUGUST KROGH For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which...
AUGUST KROGH In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would b...
AUGUST KROGH as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Svijet obično ne sudi mladića po duševnih vrlinah, već po školskih svjedodžbah ili kašnje po ...
AUGUST ŠENOA You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father
AUGUST STRINDBERG For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the m...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police
AUGUST STRINDBERG I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales
AUGUST RUSH (AUGUST RUSH 2007 MOVIE) I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed t...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enoug...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like C...
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