Top 87 Lehmann Quotes

#1. Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #7000
#2. Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann

Jonathan Kellerman

Lehmann Quotes #20926
#3. He who stands still, goes backward.

Lille Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #32928
#4. How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #47763
#5. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #87182
#6. Anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #96973
#7. There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

Karl Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #127627
#8. I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #132026
#9. Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #138026
#10. In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #158499
#11. You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life.
(after not being picked starting goalie)

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #183995
#12. He does not have my class.

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #216566
#13. But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

Karl Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #233376
#14. The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #237123
#15. I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #242187
#16. He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #297311
#17. Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #319237
#18. Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

Karl Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #337002
#19. I love 'Heathers,' and I loved doing that movie. I'm very proud of it, so if it gets brought up, I'm happy.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #359511
#20. I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #411828
#21. I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #412897
#22. Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to year. It is safe in this house.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #415709
#23. To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #468209
#24. The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #477939
#25. One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #502030
#26. Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #519203
#27. There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #529557
#28. [On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #547942
#29. People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting.

Kat Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #553240
#30. When two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #555053
#31. A bookshelf is a biography written by others.

Kat Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #563907
#32. Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

Lotte Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #598932
#33. Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #730172
#34. I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour, each day, and be alone; and read and think; and walk about the garden in the night; and wait, wait...

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #739636
#35. The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

Karl Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #747037
#36. [To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Lotte Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #785806
#37. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #789443
#38. But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

Lotte Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #798016
#39. I can't tell you how hard it is to make a dark-humored movie in Hollywood.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #884451
#40. I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #918563
#41. One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #959862
#42. The fact is, one shouldn't go to parties when one is in love. It makes one act aloof and superior and everyone distrusts you.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #970496
#43. Still, now and then they seemed to be holding behind them the surprising, the magic vistas of childhood - the sudden snow at night, whirling and furring without sound against the window; the full moon and all its shadows on the lawn; the Christmas sleigh and reindeer in the sky.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #987891
#44. A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #990840
#45. They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1048053
#46. Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #1096076
#47. I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1098025
#48. When I started 'Hudson Hawk,' I realized I was dealing with a strong-willed producer, a strong-willed actor, and, at times, a strong-willed studio, and I was the junior partner in all of this - the guy who hadn't proven anything in terms of box-office success.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1104957
#49. My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1114749
#50. We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #1117387
#51. You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1151125
#52. I got on the elevator without giving him the chance to kiss me. We stood across from each other, two sad people in a situation that couldn't be fixed. I waited for the door to slide shut between us.

Stephanie Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1160501
#53. People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1163709
#54. People always say, 'Why don't you make more movies like 'Heathers'?' And I say, 'I've been trying for 20 years.'

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1182214
#55. At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1183927
#56. When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1244196
#57. The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

Karl Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1297502
#58. It's the thought that counts.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1304333
#59. I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Lotte Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1328103
#60. The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Lotte Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1377307
#61. You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
Lotte Lehmann

Lotte Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1389279
#62. But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1415222
#63. One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1437851
#64. I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1450605
#65. The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

Karl Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1456564
#66. I've had them both, and I don't think much of either.

Beatrix Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1460440
#67. Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #1479733
#68. If I have a lot of adrenaline in my body, that is helpful because I feel less pain

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1498605
#69. To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1509221
#70. Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.

Karl Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1510934
#71. Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1515577
#72. You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

Inge Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1519875
#73. I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1537051
#74. I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with celebrities or whatever. It might be a bit boring but I have to give values to my children.

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1573927
#75. In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1581155
#76. Seemed like no matter how much money people had, they were desperate to have more, desperate to look good compared to everyone else. Why bother to impress when all anyone else cared about was how impressive THEY were?

Stephanie Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1614699
#77. For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

Karl Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1615004
#78. I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1621400
#79. At Arsenal we play a very attractive, offensive style so I always have to be aware of counter attacks when you have to shift your position a lot more.

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1632383
#80. For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony ...

Lotte Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1644563
#81. A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Lehmann Quotes #1656648
#82. One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1661660
#83. Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1670831
#84. I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother?

Michael Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1671712
#85. It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

Jens Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1740499
#86. I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.

Karl Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1776083
#87. It'll all come right. Because, of course, I do believe...I believe - I believe in everything...sun, moon, stars, in seasons - trees, flowers - people, music, life...yes, in life.

Rosamond Lehmann

Lehmann Quotes #1797398

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