Top 100 Berman Quotes
#1. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
Richard Lewis
#2. When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'
Bob Newhart
#3. Berman's foot measure. Then he turned it around and I put my right foot in. That's another reason why my mother thinks Mr. Berman is good at selling
Judy Blume
#4. Morris Berman has pointed out that museums characteristically present hard things, such as axes and spears, as evidence of early culture. But culture very likely begins with baskets made of reeds that are "soft" and hold emptiness.
Robert Bly
#5. There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor.
Michael Flutie
#6. Don, we're huge fans," I said.
"Don, we're huge fans," he shot back in a high-pitched voice meant to mock me.
What a jerk, I thought, but I didn't care, because he was Don Berman, and that's what Don Berman did.
Natalie Standiford
#7. That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence.
Circe Berman: Who isn't?.
Kurt Vonnegut
#9. There was only one, and it said, "Kate Mulgrew, this is Rick Berman, the executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager, and I simply wanted to say welcome aboard, Captain. I'll see you on the bridge Monday morning.
Kate Mulgrew
#10. Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.
Julie Marie Berman
#11. Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
Shelley Berman
#12. A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.
Nina Berman
#13. American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.
Jason Michael Berman
#14. When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone.
Rodger Berman
#15. As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
Shelley Berman
#17. He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out.
David Berman
#19. A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.
Shelley Berman
#20. I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save us
to save us ... Won't you look at the sky?
They're driving from heaven into our eyes. And though final words are so hard to devise, I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes.
David Berman
#21. Reading is like cooking. It can take hours to prepare, and then the meal is over in minutes. Good, that means you've done your job well.
Gabe Berman
#22. Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
Shelley Berman
#23. The less affluent must be able, at least in theory, to catch up with the more affluent. Hence politics remains without substance, a realm from which the crucial dimensions of life, the core values, are excluded.42 Who, then, can criticize this situation?
Morris Berman
#24. The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
Shelley Berman
#25. If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.
Paul Berman
#26. I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
Shelley Berman
#27. har anche sakht va ostovar ast dood mishavad va be hava miravad.
Marshall Berman
#29. The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.
Morris Berman
#30. If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.
Shelley Berman
#31. Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
Howard Berman
#32. Fatherhood is everything I wanted it to be and more. It's an unbelievable experience.
Rodger Berman
#33. The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
Shelley Berman
#34. The heart and soul of sex is the physical heat it creates between two bodies. Sometimes playful, sometimes passionate, sometimes pure and sweet, this skin-to-skin connection renews your bond and strengthens chemistry.
Laura Berman
#35. The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.
Howard Berman
#36. American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.
Howard Berman
#37. I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
Shelley Berman
#38. It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.
Howard Berman
#39. I am about to learn what it's like to live here.
David Berman
#40. A world remade in the image of Walt Disney, and driven by an increasingly sophisticated communications technology, is the total breakdown of civilization.20
Morris Berman
#41. We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.
David Berman
#42. People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.
Paul Berman
#43. You have a choice every moment of the day to open yourself up. And when you do that, it opens the channels of love.
Laura Berman
#44. While being the husband of uberstylist Rachel Zoe lets me waltz confidently into fashion shows with Rachel by my side, the VIP treatment usually stops there.
Rodger Berman
#45. EMPLOYEES ARE OUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET" (OR ARE THEY?)
Karen Berman
#46. And my signature is drawn in magic marker
on the lower right hand corner of the window
so when something passes in the dark
it's captured for a moment inside my work.
David Berman
#47. Nobody cirlces the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.
Chris Berman
#49. You can't change the feeling
but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two
David Berman
#50. A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very often have similar challenges. One could make the case that it's nurture, not nature because these twins were brought up together, but you can't rule out the genetic argument.
Laura Berman
#51. There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.
David Berman
#52. As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
Shelley Berman
#53. My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
Shelley Berman
#54. Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
Howard Berman
#55. As a way of getting in touch with my origins
every night I set the alarm clock
for the time I was born so that waking up
becomes a historical reenactment and the first thing I do
David Berman
#56. Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.
Saul Berman
#58. The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.
Morris Berman
#59. Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in ...
Edgar Berman
#60. Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
Shelley Berman
#61. It would be written in the history books," Luci Baines Johnson said. "But now the history had to be made.
Ari Berman
#62. Sometimes it takes a guide from outside the place you know too well to remind you why you are here.
Laura Berman
#63. I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.
Nina Berman
#65. Mexico has made a mistake. Alone, it fights a war against a global phenomenon that only matters to a few. That makes the headlines in every case because of its unusual cruelty.
Sabina Berman
#66. Nude descending a staircase headless,
not knowing where she is going
but brave because all dreams lack conclusions
and she is not enlisted to an ending.
David Berman
#67. I passed out on the fourteenth floor. The CPR was so erotic.
David Berman
#68. But everything changes. To deny change is to deny life. And the present moment contains miracles. Including an ability to see and receive the new.
Brooke Berman
#69. An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you
Morris Berman
#70. The orgastic moment for me is when I hand a manuscript to my publisher and say, 'Here! I'm all through with it. I never want to see it again,'" she said.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#71. Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.
David Berman
#72. Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.
David Berman
#73. The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction - the tragedy of American domestic
Morris Berman
#74. To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.
Marshall Berman
#75. We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.
Shelley Berman
#76. The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
Shelley Berman
#77. How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?
Howard Berman
#78. I think it's entirely possible to have a career in fashion and raise a child. Stella McCartney is on her fourth child and remains both a fashion icon and a great mom.
Rodger Berman
#79. For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.
David Berman
#81. For a heterosexual man - I know that's a hotly debated topic, but only among those who don't know me - I have grown to really appreciate fashion.
Rodger Berman
#82. I'd only stop talking when... I disappeared, or when I slept, which is the same as disappearing but horizontally.
Sabina Berman
#83. I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
Howard Berman
#84. So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up.
Shelley Berman
#85. The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.
Saul Berman
#86. While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
Shelley Berman
#88. Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.
David Berman
#89. We don't have to believe the story of our lives we've been told. You're not the same person you were when you first had sex and not the same as you'll be five years down the line. All redefining yourself requires is the bravery to be fearless, and let go of the judgments.
Laura Berman
#90. But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus ... What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.
Edgar Berman
#92. Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
Marshall Berman
#93. It's never too late to step off a path and look for a different route.
Judith Berman
#94. The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross,
Morris Berman
#95. Well, what the hell's the presidency for?
Ari Berman
#96. Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.
Gabe Berman
#97. I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.
Shelley Berman
#98. The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.
Shelley Berman
#99. All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.
David Berman
#100. Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.
Howard Berman
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