Top 100 Bert Quotes
#1. All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.
James Vincent McMorrow
#2. I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.
J Mascis
#3. I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.
Dian Fossey
#4. Incoming Text: Bert will be so disappointed. He had down that Canon would eat you alive by last night. Note to self: Never bet against Bert.
Qwen Salsbury
#6. Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.
W.C. Fields
#7. Quit crabbing," Bert said mildly. "We're here now, and we've got to like it.
Louis L'Amour
#8. In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.
George Vecsey
#9. It only takes 30 seconds to pluck my eyebrows, but it hurts. I have to tweeze 'em in the middle once a week. Otherwise, I look like Bert from 'Sesame Street.'
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#10. I lean back in my chair and turn on my computer. I have to admit that writing the list did help. Another point for Dad, king of the lists. Bert asks if
Alice J. Wisler
#11. His dad had always told him that the red-faced were blusterers, not to be taken seriously. 'But if you see a bloke who's pale and shaking, son,' Bert's father had instructed, 'then run like blazes, because he might flamin' kill you.
Kerry Greenwood
#12. I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#13. The revolution in cancer research can be summed up in a single sentence: cancer is, in essence, a genetic disease. - Bert Vogelstein
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#14. I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.
Carolyn Kizer
#15. To me she said, "It's this stupid gotcha thing, they've been doing it for weeks now. Leaping out at each other and us, scaring the hell out of everyone."
"It's a game of wits," Bert said to me.
"Half-wits," Kristy added.
Sarah Dessen
#16. Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.
Brendan Morrison
#17. He liked to talk about the criminals he had put away, and how a person never knew, and how he had to protect his family, and how he wasn't going to let the other guy make the first move, but really it was just that Bert liked guns. The
Ann Patchett
#18. One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.
Gerard Way
#19. You're a very odd man," said Bert.
"I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.
James A. Owen
#20. In the history of show business, there probably never was a straighter straight man than banana-yellow Bert, the paper clip collector and pigeon fancier.
Michael Davis
#21. A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.
Bert Williams
#22. Fr. Bert White: I think when you focus on money and property ownership, you go the way of the material world, of the Big, of Up and More. It becomes your agenda and then faith can fly out of the window. There has to be faith and a trust in God's reality - a trust that things will work out.
Mother Teresa
#23. Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
Norm MacDonald
#24. Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming - all gold, with purple spots - look behind the paint! And if it's a lie - show it up for what it really is!
Jerome Lawrence
#25. You somehow didn't expect cleverness from a girl this beautiful; beautiful girls did not, as a rule, have to be clever. So far as Bert could tell, all beautiful girls had to do was wake up in the morning.
Stephen King
#26. Don't go confusing stupidity with guts." -Bert
Cath Crowley
#27. First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage.
Conan O'Brien
#28. Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach.
Kerry Greenwood
#29. Dog's constipated," said Bert the Shirt.
"Who isn't?" said the Godfather.
Laurence Shames
#30. Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.
David Hepworth
#31. Bert knows it would take more than a little row to get between us. Because friends like us, like Bert and me, we'll always be together.
Jess Vallance
#32. It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever in the life everlasting. This life had, some of them thought, been quite bad enough.
Margaret Drabble
#33. Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.
Bert Blyleven
#34. I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening in on the phone while I was talking about sex to my girlfriend. They freaked out, man. They both cornered me in my bedroom.
Bert McCracken
#35. So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.
Bert Campaneris
#36. The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.
Bert Blyleven
#38. When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.
Bert McCracken
#39. God will speak to you - not that you will hear audible words in your ears, but words that you will clearly understand in your heart.
Bert Ghezzi
#40. What comes at you comes from you.
Bert Winn
#42. I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
Bert Williams
#43. I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.
Bert Stern
#44. The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
Bert Williams
#45. I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture
Bert McCracken
#46. Its about letting go so you can get what what you want.
Bert Cooper
#47. I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.
Bert Stern
#48. I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.
Bert Blyleven
#49. Every time we came back from a rough mission we had to shake up the line-up and twice we had to find a whole new infield. They had a hot club in our squadron once before, the best in the whole division and then they went to Schweinfurt.
Bert Stiles
#50. Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
Paul Bert
#51. We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy
Bert McCracken
#52. The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can
Bert McCracken
#53. It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.
Bert Murray
#54. I'm probably one of the few people that liked 'Water World' with Kevin Costner.
Bert Blyleven
#55. That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
Bert Lahr
#56. How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?
Bert Murray
#57. You're going to need a stronger stomach if you're going to be back in the kitchen seeing how the sausage is made.
Bert Cooper
#58. The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
Bert Holldobler
#59. Some think they are seeking their own soul's truth but the
greater Soul is thinking and seeking through them
Bert Hellinger
#60. We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.
Bert McCracken
#61. Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.
Bert Holldobler
#62. Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple
the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.
Bert McCracken
#63. It's strange how many of us choose to stuff our lives with busyness and distractions. When we're too busy, we don't do anything well. Our relationships suffer, our performance at work suffers, and we don't enjoy our lives. Yet being "crazy busy" is a badge of honor for some people.
Bert Jacobs
#64. Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
Bert Campaneris
#65. I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.
Bert Blyleven
#66. I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.
Bert McCracken
#67. I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.
Bert Blyleven
#68. Talking about food arouses certain individuals the way talking about sex does others.
Bert Greene
#69. I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.
Bert Blyleven
#70. You know, the Chinese don't like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they're right. The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.
Bert Stern
#72. The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.
Bert Hellinger
#73. Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
Bert Sugar
#74. Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.
Bert Lance
#76. Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.
Bert Campaneris
#77. The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.
Bert Hellinger
#78. It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?
Bert Sugar
#79. Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
Bert Murray
#80. Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.
Bert Blyleven
#81. When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.
Bert McCracken
#82. If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
Bert McCracken
#83. Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
Bert Campaneris
#84. Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
Bert Hardy
#85. It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.
Bert McCracken
#88. Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.
Bert Jansch
#91. None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.
Bert Dodson
#92. When my body gets so overexerted with energy, I just keep going and going.
Bert McCracken
#93. When I lived in South Africa, someone told me what the longest road in Africa is. It's not the road from Cairo to Capetown, it's the way from your head to your heart, and from there to the here and now.
Bert Hellinger
#94. Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.
Bert Dodson
#95. In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.
Bert Campaneris
#96. We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
Bert Holldobler
#97. Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.
Bert Stern
#98. The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable.
The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.
Bert McCracken
#99. When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.
Bert Blyleven
#100. If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.
Bert Sugar
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