Peter Bergman Quotes

#1. After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things

Georgette Heyer

#2. When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.

Emma Goldman

#3. After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

Tom Platz

#4. When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

Peter Bergman

#5. There must be a government, said the first blind man, I'm not so sure, but there is, it will be a government of the blind trying to rule the blind, that is to say, nothingness trying to organize nothingness.

Jose Saramago

#6. You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Brene Brown

#7. If you had a chance to do a TED talk, what would it be about? What have you discovered, what do you know, what can you teach? You should do one. Even if you don't do one, you should be prepared to do one.

Seth Godin

#8. These divisions are illusory. What we call "nature" is merely one mode of the disclosure of the "supernatural," and natural reason merely one mode of revelation, and philosophy merely one (feeble) mode of reason's ascent into the light of God.

David Bentley Hart

#9. I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Virginia Woolf

#10. I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

Hayao Miyazaki

#11. I am happiest when I am alone.

Jackie Kennedy

#12. I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.

Peter Bergman

#13. She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

Peter Bergman

#14. Education is too important to be left solely to educators.

Francis Keppel

#15. My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Richard Dawkins

#16. When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'

Peter Bergman

#17. I have never felt so much good female energy around me. I find that I can't take my eyes off them. I'm 99 percent sure I will leave this movie a lesbian.

Kristen Bell

#18. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Nelson DeMille

#19. The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.

Arthur Lewis

#20. We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

Peter Bergman