1. Mann - Noun
2. Mann - Proper noun
German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955)
United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)
Source: WordNetIt was a brilliant, mutinous period. Brecht gave back to German prose its Lutheran simplicity and Thomas Mann brought into his style the supple, luminous elegance of the classic and Mediterranean tradition. These years, 1920-33, were the anni mirabiles of the modern German spirit. George Steiner
"About the Seduction of an Angel" [Über die Verführung von Engeln]; the poem actually stems from Brecht's own pen, but Brecht signed it with the name of his contemporary, fellow German author (in exile) Thomas Mann. Bertolt Brecht
I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see. Antoine Fuqua
Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job. Ernie Harwell
The two great men in my time were Mann and Joyce. You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. William Faulkner
A casting director later testified that, despite Weinstein's promises, Mann was too old and tall to fit the role and that it had already been cast at the time. Source: Internet