Top 100 Bernhard's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Bernhard's

#1. 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

#2. You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

Bernhard Goetz

#3. It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

Bernhard Langer

#4. When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.

Ruth Bernhard

#5. Because in the end nothing matters all that much, as he also wrote on another slip, and on his last slip he'd written, it's all the same.

Thomas Bernhard

#6. The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.

Sandra Bernhard

#7. Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

Ruth Bernhard

#8. But we don't always have to be studying something, I thought, it's perfectly enough merely to think, to do nothing but think and give our thoughts free rein. To give in to our philosophical worldview, simply submit to our philosophical worldview, but that's the hardest thing, I thought. Wertheimer

Thomas Bernhard

#9. I certainly know German colleagues in the U.S. who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

Bernhard Schlink

#10. It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

Bernhard Schlink

#11. There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

Bernhard Schlink

#12. Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

Ruth Bernhard

#13. I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

Bernhard Langer

#14. It's a folk art of sorts, I said to Hoeller, always longing to kill oneself but being kept by one's watchful intelligence from killing oneself, so that the condition is stabilized in the form of lifelong controlled suffering, it's an art possessed only by this people and those belonging to it.

Thomas Bernhard

#15. I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing ...

Sandra Bernhard

#16. They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

Sandra Bernhard

#17. We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ...

Thomas Bernhard

#18. You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

Bernhard Langer

#19. I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.

Sandra Bernhard

#20. When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

Bernhard Schlink

#21. At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

Sandra Bernhard

#22. Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Thomas Bernhard

#23. I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.

Sandra Bernhard

#24. We had taken him for a Norwegian ship's captain and had come to his table to hear some more about seafaring, not about philosophy, from which, indeed, we had fled north from Central Europe.

Thomas Bernhard

#25. I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.

Sandra Bernhard

#26. It's up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I'm not sure I'm on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

Bernhard Langer

#27. On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.

Thomas Bernhard

#28. Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

Bernhard Von Bulow

#29. arts, I said, just like that in painting, in literature, I said, even philosophers are ignorant of philosophy. Most artists are ignorant of their art. They have a dilettante's notion of art, remain stuck all their lives in dilettantism, even the most famous artists in the world. We

Thomas Bernhard

#30. There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Bernhard Schlink

#31. I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

Sandra Bernhard

#32. But what gave rise to the swaggering self-righteousness I so often encountered among these students? How could one feel guilt and shame, and at the same time parade one's self-righteousness?

Bernhard Schlink

#33. What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.

Bernhard Schlink

#34. I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.

Bernhard Schlink

#35. I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.

Sandra Bernhard

#36. I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture it's beauty.

Bernhard Schlink

#37. It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

Sandra Bernhard

#38. I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

Sandra Bernhard

#39. Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

Sandra Bernhard

#40. The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

Ruth Bernhard

#41. It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

Sandra Bernhard

#42. But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general.

Bernhard Langer

#43. The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.

Bernhard Schlink

#44. I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.

Sandra Bernhard

#45. As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

Bernhard Schlink

#46. We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

Bernhard Langer

#47. Gay pride's beautiful. If somebody needs to be expressing that, then it's a positive thing.

Sandra Bernhard

#48. It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.

Sandra Bernhard

#49. Then he had kept himself to himself, "in the way you might stick by a tree, which might be rotten, but at least it's a tree," and heart and understanding had been dismissed, pushed into the background.

Thomas Bernhard

#50. I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

Ruth Bernhard

#51. This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.

Bernhard Von Bulow

#52. 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

#53. Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Thomas Bernhard

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

Ruth Bernhard

#57. 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

#58. Literature is not conceivable without philosophy or the other way round

Thomas Bernhard

#59. The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

Bernhard Schlink

#60. Society is better off without certain people.

Bernhard Goetz

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.

Toni Bernhard

#65. Reading is still the most bearable of all forms of disgust.

Thomas Bernhard

#66. I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.

Sandra Bernhard

#67. 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

#68. Everything is one and I am one with it.

Ruth Bernhard

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Thomas Bernhard

#72. 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

#73. New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.

Sandra Bernhard

#74. 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

#75. Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

Sandra Bernhard

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

Sandra Bernhard

#79. There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

Sandra Bernhard

#80. Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

Sandra Bernhard

#81. Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.

Sandra Bernhard

#82. It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

Bernhard Haring

#83. I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

Sandra Bernhard

#84. 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

#85. My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Sandra Bernhard

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

Bernhard Langer

#90. I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

Sandra Bernhard

#91. 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

#92. I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

Bernhard Langer

#93. If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.

Sandra Bernhard

#94. 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

#95. 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