Blechtrommel Full Quotes & Sayings

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical. — Diane Paulus

In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself. — Zainab Salbi

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate. — George Murray

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. — Michael Pollan

I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions:
are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever? — James Richardson

I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the State's Rights issue. These matters contributed to the quarrel, but there is a deeper reason. It was bought on by some Yankee coming down south and putting nutmeg in a julep. So our folks up and left the Union flat. — Irvin S. Cobb

After that he would leave for a while, breaking things as he went, slamming doors to kick them open, picking up decanters to hurl at mirrors, detouring by way of chairs to smash them against the floor. Always when he came back he would sleep in their room, shutting the door against her. Rigid with self-pity she would lie in another room, wishing for the will to leave. Each believed the other a murderer of time, a destroyer of life itself. — Joan Didion

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing. — Juliana Hatfield

Like our padded cell?" He poked the insulated walls. "It's like living in a vagina. — Michael Crichton