Top 100 Bernhard Quotes
#1. It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It
Thomas Bernhard
#2. I do look at fashion, and I love going to Opening Ceremony and seeing what they have. Seeing what Jeremy Scott is doing. And this designer Bernhard Wilhelm. Proenza Schouler.
Jim Drain
#3. I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
Ben Marcus
#4. I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
Ben Marcus
#5. Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
Steve Toltz
#6. The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
P. J. O'Rourke
#7. Tall, black-haired, rouged, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his little black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved hand - the 'poseur' absolute. He was said to have slept with Sarah Bernhard and vomited for a week afterwards.
William Sansom
#8. Man is a wretched creature and death is a certainty - Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard
#9. I've written things about that, about how life's really big decisions aren't right or wrong, it's just that one lives different lives. No, I don't think your life went wrong.
Bernhard Schlink
#10. Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.
Sandra Bernhard
#11. That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.
Bernhard Langer
#12. New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.
Sandra Bernhard
#13. I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?
Sandra Bernhard
#14. We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
#15. Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
Sandra Bernhard
#16. Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.
Ruth Bernhard
#18. Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.
Richard Hamming
#20. If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.
Ruth Bernhard
#21. Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.
Toni Bernhard
#22. You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life
a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.
Thomas Bernhard
#23. Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.
Thomas Bernhard
#24. I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.
Sandra Bernhard
#26. The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.
Bernhard Schlink
#27. Literature is not conceivable without philosophy or the other way round
Thomas Bernhard
#28. It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.
Bernhard Langer
#29. If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.
Ruth Bernhard
#30. Coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.
Sandra Bernhard
#31. If that handsome fellow were a cripple he wouldn't repel me, but he isn't a cripple, he is that handsome fellow, so he repels me ...
Thomas Bernhard
#33. Reading is still the most bearable of all forms of disgust.
Thomas Bernhard
#34. I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.
Sandra Bernhard
#35. I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.
Ruth Bernhard
#36. I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.
Sandra Bernhard
#37. The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
Bernhard Schlink
#38. I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.
Bernhard Langer
#39. I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.
Bernhard Goetz
#40. I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.
Bernhard Goetz
#41. I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
Bernhard Langer
#43. And you realize that it was not those great minds and not those old masters which kept you alive for decades but that it was this one single person whom you loved more than anyone else.
Thomas Bernhard
#44. We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist
Thomas Bernhard
#45. My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.
Ruth Bernhard
#47. The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#48. I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.
Sandra Bernhard
#50. Nature, not yet polluted by human beings, hence his early rising.
Thomas Bernhard
#51. When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?
Sandra Bernhard
#52. A body needs at least
three points of support,
not in a straight line,
to fix its position,
so Roithamer had written.
Thomas Bernhard
#53. A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.
Sandra Bernhard
#54. Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.
Thomas Bernhard
#55. I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.
Ruth Bernhard
#56. You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
Bernhard Langer
#57. When we think, we know nothing, everything is open, nothing, so Roithamer.
Thomas Bernhard
#58. Lawyers make nothing but confusion ... A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.
Thomas Bernhard
#59. If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.
Sandra Bernhard
#60. I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.
Bernhard Langer
#61. You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
Sandra Bernhard
#63. I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.
Sandra Bernhard
#64. He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it.
Thomas Bernhard
#65. I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.
Bernhard Goetz
#66. I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.
Bernhard Langer
#67. Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.
Sandra Bernhard
#68. People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.
Sandra Bernhard
#69. Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
Sandra Bernhard
#70. When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.
Sandra Bernhard
#71. During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.
Bernhard Goetz
#72. Why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
Bernhard Schlink
#74. I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.
Sandra Bernhard
#75. If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning
Ruth Bernhard
#76. Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
Sandra Bernhard
#77. Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.
Sandra Bernhard
#78. In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved
Bernhard Schlink
#79. To me ... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.
Ruth Bernhard
#80. For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#81. I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.
Bernhard Goetz
#82. Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.
Ruth Bernhard
#83. He abhorred people who said things that hadn't been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind.
Thomas Bernhard
#84. We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#86. I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.
Sandra Bernhard
#87. Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.
Sandra Bernhard
#88. She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.
Bernhard Schlink
#89. When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagine ourselves in.
Thomas Bernhard
#90. The whole function of education is to create Nazis.
Bernhard Rust
#92. Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils ... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.
Bernhard Rust
#93. My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
Sandra Bernhard
#94. Glenn died at the perfect moment, I thought, but Wertheimer didn't commit suicide at the perfect moment, whoever commits suicide never commits suicide at the perfect moment, whereas a so-called natural death always occurs at the perfect moment. Wertheimer
Thomas Bernhard
#95. I feel that everything has to come from the heart, and it cannot come from the intellect.
Ruth Bernhard
#96. We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.
Thomas Bernhard
#98. What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
Bernhard Schlink
#99. Wertheimer was afraid of losing his unhappiness and killed himself for this and no other reason, I thought, with
Thomas Bernhard
#100. There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.
Sandra Bernhard
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