Brecht Galileo Quotes & Sayings

I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate. — Lois Lowry

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. — Will Ferrell

I don't know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic. — M.F. Moonzajer

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love. — George Will

Desperation can make a person do surprising things. — Veronica Roth

Ever since the news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had first reached him in California, Brecht had connected Galileo's caving-in before the Inquisition as the great and perhaps ineradicable moral blot on the history of physics and the developments in modern physics that led to the atomic and hydrogen bombs. — John Fuegi