Top 73 Quotes About Boll
#1. Have you read any book from "heinrich boll"?he is my faverit writer . what do u think about his books?
Heinrich Boll
#2. He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.
Rupert Hughes
#3. They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to Kansas since the eradication of the boll weevil.
Jay Leno
#4. There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?
Will Rogers
#5. here he dug in his pockets and produced a thimble, a root, two empty tin cans, three Indian arrowheads, an apple peeler, a dried-up boll weevil, and a bent pocketknife.
James McBride
#6. I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.
Uwe Boll
#7. Now the Irish have a strange custom: whenever the name of County Mayo is spoken (whether in praise, blame, or non-committally, as soon as the world Mayo is spoken, the Irish add: 'God help us!" It sounds like the response in a litany: 'Lord, have mercy upon us!
Heinrich Boll
#8. Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.
Heinrich Boll
#9. I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.
Heinrich Boll
#10. We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.
Heinrich Boll
#11. As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
Heinrich Boll
#12. I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
Uwe Boll
#13. If the dead could speak there would be no more war.
Heinrich Boll
#14. Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
Heinrich Boll
#15. Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
Uwe Boll
#16. So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Uwe Boll
#17. It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.
Heinrich Boll
#18. Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.
Heinrich Boll
#19. My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
Uwe Boll
#20. I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
Uwe Boll
#21. I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.
Heinrich Boll
#22. For the outsider
and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else
something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.
Heinrich Boll
#23. One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.
Heinrich Boll
#24. I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
Uwe Boll
#25. Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.
Heinrich Boll
#26. The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.
Uwe Boll
#27. Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
Uwe Boll
#28. Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
Uwe Boll
#29. Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
Heinrich Boll
#30. I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.
Heinrich Boll
#31. For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.
Heinrich Boll
#32. The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
Heinrich Boll
#33. We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.
Uwe Boll
#34. A child ... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.
Heinrich Boll
#35. The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.
Heinrich Boll
#36. Actors don't have real value.
Uwe Boll
#37. An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.
Heinrich Boll
#38. I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
Uwe Boll
#39. A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
Uwe Boll
#40. A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.
Heinrich Boll
#42. Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
Uwe Boll
#43. In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
Uwe Boll
#44. One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist.
Heinrich Boll
#45. Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.
Heinrich Boll
#46. One would like to know, for most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.
Heinrich Boll
#47. So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
Uwe Boll
#48. To cling to the past is hypocrisy, because no one knows those moments.
Heinrich Boll
#49. The characters and action in this story are purely fictitious. Should the description of certain journalistic practices result in a resemblance to the practices of Bild-Zeitung, such resemblance is neither intentional, nor fortuitous, but unavoidable.
Heinrich Boll
#50. House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do.
Uwe Boll
#51. Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.
Heinrich Boll
#52. Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
Uwe Boll
#53. Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.
Heinrich Boll
#54. Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
Uwe Boll
#55. If you want to do something ... get up and actually do it!
Heinrich Boll
#56. Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
Uwe Boll
#57. Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.
Uwe Boll
#58. On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.
Heinrich Boll
#59. No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.
Heinrich Boll
#60. There are some strange unrecognized forms of prostitution with which prostitution itself is an honest trade: at least you get something for your money.
Heinrich Boll
#61. Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.
Heinrich Boll
#62. House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll
#63. My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.
Heinrich Boll
#64. If people hate me they hate me.
Uwe Boll
#65. ... she said she would not sign any deposition containing the word "amorous" instead of "advances". For her the difference was of crucial significance, and one of the reasons she had separated from her husband was that he had never been amorous but had consistently made advances.
Heinrich Boll
#66. In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
Uwe Boll
#67. Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters-I think that shows the mood of the movie.
Uwe Boll
#68. Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.
Heinrich Boll
#69. I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you."
"And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh.
"I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences."
"And atheists?" He was still laughing.
"They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.
Heinrich Boll
#72. Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
Uwe Boll
#73. We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.
Uwe Boll
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