Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.


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I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and ...
AUGUST KROGH
There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
AUGUST SANDER
The mob could begin to rule in a few days if these people do not get more food and water. I think it...
AUGUST PILLSBURY
I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.
AUGUST HECKSCHER
We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have pr...
AUGUST HANNING
As new developments they present new dangers.
AUGUST HANNING
I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
J.M. AUGUST
The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained wh...
AUGUST KROGH
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is e...
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
AUGUST KROGH
During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of C...
AUGUST KEKULé
You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and fra...
J.M. AUGUST
Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth.
AUGUST KEKULé
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced b...
AUGUST KROGH
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
BILLE AUGUST
Doesn't matter how near; Doesn't matter how far; One thing is clear; I love you wherever you are
AUGUST LINDBERG
The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small num...
AUGUST KROGH
I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST
It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an...
BILLE AUGUST
The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I me...
BILLE AUGUST
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect t...
AUGUST STRINDBERG
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point o...
AUGUST STRINDBERG
I dream, therefore I exist.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a numb...
AUGUST KROGH
In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practi...
AUGUST KROGH
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the a...
AUGUST KROGH
In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of...
AUGUST KROGH
In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combin...
AUGUST KROGH
Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the syst...
AUGUST KROGH
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to s...
AUGUST KROGH
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which...
AUGUST KROGH
In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would b...
AUGUST KROGH
as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Svijet obično ne sudi mladića po duševnih vrlinah, već po školskih svjedodžbah ili kašnje po ...
AUGUST ŠENOA
You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father
AUGUST STRINDBERG
For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the m...
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police
AUGUST STRINDBERG
I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales
AUGUST RUSH (AUGUST RUSH 2007 MOVIE)
I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS
I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed t...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS
Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enoug...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS
The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like C...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS