Bertolt Brecht Theatre Quotes & Sayings

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. — Bertolt Brecht

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart. — Werner Herzog

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S. — Glenn Greenwald

I choose to open my arms to all the good that life has in store for me. — Louise Hay

I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be almost unable to imagine life without an Internet component interlocked with it. — Chuck Klosterman

Women like being kissed. — Rod Stewart

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette. — Marie Dressler

The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates. — H.L. Mencken

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun. — Bertolt Brecht

And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth ... — Joseph Smith Jr.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays ... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same. — Jesse Ventura

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there. — Bertolt Brecht

We can all put weight on or lose weight. — Keith Emerson

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. — Bertolt Brecht

If you have a good date, it's nice to text them afterward to say "thanks." But if they were totally lame, it's fun to text "unsubscribe." — Caprice Crane

Hey, Cormac. You ever have to deal with a PMSing werewolf? — Carrie Vaughn