Herrmann Quotes

#1. Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection.

Jo-Ann Mapson

#2. Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.

Louis Pasteur

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Michel Hazanavicius

#6. 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

#7. I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

Edward Herrmann

#8. I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

Edward Herrmann

#9. He's like an elephant with anger issues.

Richard Paul Evans

#10. Cats are hard to train, but they can train them.

Edward Herrmann

#11. How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

Edward Herrmann

#12. Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Edward Herrmann

#13. I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

John Darnielle

#14. I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!

Alexander Herrmann

#15. I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

Edward Herrmann

#16. I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

Edward Herrmann

#17. A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

Marcel Herrmann Telles

#18. The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

Edward Herrmann

#19. We learn many things, from many people as opposed to your world, where you're taught all the same things, by the same people.

Neal Shusterman

#20. Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.

Edward Herrmann

#21. Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.

Ned Herrmann

#22. God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.

Susan Vreeland

#23. If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

Edward Herrmann

#24. You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.

Edward Herrmann

#25. I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

Jeff Ament

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

Bernard Herrmann

#27. One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water ... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.

Dick Button

#28. Most of us assume we are seeing the world the way it really is.

Ned Herrmann

#29. 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

#30. I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Joel Osteen

#31. More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

Rosalind E. Krauss

#32. There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness.

Deanna Herrmann

#33. Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

Edward Herrmann

#34. Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

Maeve Binchy

#35. I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.

Edward Herrmann

#36. To win, depend on your thoughts and actions but not on circumstances.

Debasish Mridha

#37. Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

John C. Bogle

#38. Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.

Edward Herrmann

#39. I'm just a kid who would really love to no be dissected.

Matt Myklusch

#40. I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

Edward Herrmann

#41. The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

Alexander Herrmann