Sesame Street Bert Sayings

#1. Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.

Pete Sampras

#2. No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Desiderius Erasmus

#3. The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.

Kurt Richebacher

#4. And all this time he was cheating on me! Making a fool out of me! He made me look stupid in front of everyone!

Amanda Laneley

#5. I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.

Mitch Hedberg

#6. The faint sound of music filtered into the room, a welcome disruption from the agonizing silence. The soft melody comforted Haven. She relaxed as the tension left her body, but it did nothing to shut off her mind. She lay awake, listening as she stared at the clock, wishing for relief.

J.M. Darhower

#7. Identify. Improve. Resolve. #nucherte

Loretta R. Walls

#8. Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.

Ed Viesturs

#9. 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

#10. The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

Jam Master Jay

#11. Thank you for seeing me on the days when I couldn't see myself.

Mara Brock Akil

#12. How many worlds make up a life!

Carol Drinkwater

#13. Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

Iris Apfel

#14. A critical ingredient which binds customers to a brand is trust

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#15. The plunder of black life was drilled into this country in its infancy and reinforced across its history, so that plunder has become an heirloom, an intelligence, a sentience, a default setting

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#16. 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.

#17. We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau