All Quiet On The Western Quotes

#1. In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

Shakti Gawain

#2. I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

Eugene Chadbourne

#3. We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

Erich Maria Remarque

#4. My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

Usher

#5. A line, a short line, stumbles off into the morning. Thirty two men.

Erich Maria Remarque

#6. Brady was staring at me from across the table. Unmoving. Unblinking. Not speaking. It was like an old Western. The house was too quiet as I stared back at him. He was winning this contest. And I'd had no idea we were even in one to begin with. Break, kid. Break

Amber L. Johnson

#7. It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Matthew Stover

#8. And be very careful at the front, Paul."
Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!

Erich Maria Remarque

#9. My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Tom Hanks

#10. All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings - greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance.

Erich Maria Remarque

#11. A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

Erich Maria Remarque

#12. His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him.

Glen David Gold

#13. Flow is the best of what happens when potential is activated by consciousness.

Dew Platt

#14. For the most part, I'd say if you crossed a cat with a smart dog, made him a matriarchal vegetarian, gave him sleek beauty, a mass of muscle, and the desire to run, then what you'd have is a horse.

Tom Spanbauer

#15. I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Robert Bloch

#16. The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them ...

Enrich M. Remarque

#17. There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

Matt Gallagher

#18. Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

Erich Maria Remarque

#19. And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

Erich Maria Remarque

#20. We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Erich Maria Remarque

#21. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Erich Maria Remarque

#22. I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

Richard M. Nixon

#23. We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2

Erich Maria Remarque

#24. The bigness of the West makes men quiet; they seldom talk unless they have something to say.

William S. Hart

#25. The room did not go quiet like something out of an old Western where the sheriff pushes open the creaking door and sashays into the saloon. Maybe that was the problem. Maybe the door needed to creak.

Harlan Coben

#26. All Quiet on the Western Front,

Mark Kurlansky

#27. Dignity' has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#28. Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Ralph Marston

#29. The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Ann Widdecombe