Brechtian Style Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter. — Debra Granik

I'm playing in the Masters. It's obviously very important to me, and I want to be there. I've worked a lot on my game and I'm looking forward to competing. I'm excited to get to Augusta and I appreciate everyone's support. — Tiger Woods

My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone. — Don Henley

I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working for American studios, and was handed the Ladies Home Journal and asked to adapt the stories for the screen. He found ways to use his artistry to make them interesting and nuanced, while critiquing American values in the process. — Todd Haynes

Chess is and will always be a game of chance. — Jan Hein Donner

LIFE is a shit, So we are taking it... — Rajesh

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart? — Douglas Coupland

Longing on a large scale makes history. — Don DeLillo

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times. — Benjamin Whichcote