Tin Drum Quotes

#1. When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet
it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.
My other beats a tin drum in my heart.
My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep.
My other cries and cries and cries
when I put on a cocktail dress.

Anne Sexton

#2. He swings the knocker against the door. The entire building booms like a drum. It continues booming after he lets go, banging like a clock striking the hour, rattling like a great tin drum.

Christopher Bram

#3. I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

Gunter Grass

#4. The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.

William James

#5. A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand.

Faith Brashear

#6. Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

Jennifer Granholm

#7. Yeah Jesus could turn water in to wine, but he didn't share. Douche.

Anthony Langston

#8. We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

Graeme Le Saux

#9. What is wrong with you?
Many, many things.

Ilona Andrews

#10. I could never live out completely one full experience, one point of consciousness in time and space. My dreams, if dreams they may be called, were rhymeless and reasonless.

Jack London

#11. You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.

Mooji

#12. I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

Lykke Li

#13. Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

John C. Maxwell

#14. When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

Red Buttons

#15. But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk, I ran up against the kids in our building and felt fortunate, after a few brushes with those little cannibals, to return to my reading in one piece.

Gunter Grass

#16. I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

Neill Blomkamp

#17. What you lose pursuing your dreams is waiting for you once you achieve them.

Matshona Dhliwayo