Bertold Quotes

#1. I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

Nina Hagen

#2. There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Paul Wellstone

#6. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

Alexander Pope

#7. A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment.

Robert C. Martin

#8. I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

Jeff Abbott

#9. Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

Eli Roth

#10. One thing I've learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but don't stare.

Wally Lamb

#11. [As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

Ralph Nader