Annette Wannamaker > Annette's Quotes

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Brecht on Theatre

“For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Antigone: In a Version by Bertolt Brecht

“Grub first, then ethics.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Boy meets girl. So what?”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Food comes first and then morality
Bertolt brecht”
― bertolt brecht

“Sitting and sedition don't mix.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“When the sharks the sharks devour
Little fishes have their hour.”
― Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle

“Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.”
― M. T. Anderson, Feed

“…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the air on common rooftops--the rivers that burst through the city streets so they ran like canals--the rabbits in parking garages--the deer foaling, nestled in Dumpsters like a Nativity.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“That’s one of the great things about the feed—that you can be supersmart without ever working. Everyone is supersmart now. You can look things up automatic, like science and history, like if you want to know which battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and shit.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed