Threepenny Opera Quotes

#1. Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging

Satyajit Das

#2. I didn't become a writer to write about me.

Salman Rushdie

#3. I had failed him; I knew it. But I could do no more. It was beyond my strength.
That night, I think, he explored the uttermost depths of his loneliness.

Christopher Isherwood

#4. People's envy shows how unhappy they feel; their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. I don't like it.
I like it.
I don't.
I do.
See? Rotten soul. Corrupted, rotten soul.

Colleen Hoover

#6. I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices ...

Andre Gide

#7. A Man lives off his head.
His head won't see him through.
Inspect your own
What lives on that?
At most, a louse or two ...

Bertolt Brecht

#8. You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

Iyanla Vanzant

#9. I know because your mice have been sending Facebook messages to my mice. They really like the caps lock key. Someone should teach them about proper email etiquette.

Seanan McGuire

#10. Exemplary leaders know that if they want to gain commitment and achieve the highest standards, they must be models of the behavior they expect of others.

James M. Kouzes

#11. This will be a new amputation. You've been a part of my flesh, underneath all my skin. Your removal will bleed and leave me lame for a time.

Julie Berry

#12. Author relates the reaction of an Irish village to a landowner who tried to raise rents on the land's occupants. The villagers refused to talk to or trade with the man, whose name was Captain Boycott.

Patrick N. Allitt

#13. Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

John Updike

#14. My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

Warren Buffett

#15. Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

Russ Feingold

#16. Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Patrick Suskind

#17. Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-

He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.

Jenny Trout