Bernard Herrmann Quotes

#1. Your views are as narrow as your tie.

Bernard Herrmann

#2. Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

Ennio Morricone

#3. Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."

--On Orson Welles

Bernard Herrmann

#4. When God calls a man He entrust something to him

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

Tom Driberg

#6. After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.

Loren Eiseley

#7. The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.

Adolf Hitler

#8. Who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Michael J. McCarthy

#10. What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

Bear McCreary

#11. Do you want me to go with you to the bathroom?" I

Minecrafter

#12. The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

Guillermo Del Toro

#13. With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Maurice Jarre

#14. Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.

Napoleon Hill

#15. Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#16. [O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

Mohsin Hamid

#17. Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

Michel Hazanavicius

#18. I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Mike Figgis

#19. Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

Judy Collins