Lotte Lenya famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.
-- Lotte Lenya

#Hands #Sensitive #Brecht
[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!
-- Lotte Lenya

#Dream #Determination #War
[I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a beautiful blue heron flew over the brook. Nature can make me cry faster than anything.
-- Lotte Lenya

#Beautiful #Autumn #Blue
When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.
-- Lotte Lenya

#Crush #Fall #Responsibility
Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience.
-- Lotte Lenya

#Training #Substitutes

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
I'm not crazy, i'm just sensitive
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

Lotte Lenya famous quotes

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