Top 100 Werner Quotes
#1. Time slows. The attic disappears. Jutta disappears. Has anyone ever spoken so intimately about the very things Werner is most curious about? Open
Anthony Doerr
#2. Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks;
Anthony Doerr
#3. He may have the Rockwell genes, but he has the Werner genitals! Adda boy, Mr. Werner said a little too proudly.
Melisa M. Hamling
#4. Werner Heisenberg put it, "what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Heisenberg, a German physicist, made this observation regarding quantum mechanics, but it holds equally true for explorations of the animal
Frans De Waal
#5. Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
Dan Gilroy
#7. Even now, I have to smile when I think of this. I tell you, of all the things about Werner Vetter that appealed to me, this most of all warmed my heart: He had no respect for the truth in Nazi Germany.
Edith Hahn Beer
#8. The network of trenches and artillery below shows itself very clearly for a moment, and Werner feels he is gazing down into the circuitry of an enormous radio, each soldier down there an electron flowing single file down his own electrical path, with no more say in the matter than an electron has.
Anthony Doerr
#9. All the next day the pleasure of his success lingers in Werner's blood, the memory of how it seemed almost holy to him to walk beside big Volkheimer back to the castle, down through the frozen trees, past the rooms of sleeping boys ranked like gold bars in strongrooms...
Anthony Doerr
#10. Our repartee would be rich with subtlety and sarcasm, as smart and funny as midcareer Woody Allen. Our fucking, like Werner Herzog, serious and perplexing.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#12. On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague.
Klaus Kinski
#13. It seems to Werner that the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. He thinks of the girl who may or may not be in the city behind him.
Anthony Doerr
#14. I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks. - Albert Einstein, in an interview with Alfred Werner for Liberal Judaism (1949)
Robert Masello
#15. Jutta whispers, A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn't let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren't we half-breeds too? Aren't we half our mother, half our father?
Anthony Doerr
#16. It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world - what pretensions humans have!
Anthony Doerr
#17. I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
Ava DuVernay
#18. Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye - the body can never be pure.
Anthony Doerr
#19. Colluded with German communists to build a secret radio and send messages to the Allies. In addition to his endless work week, Werner also had
Edith Hahn Beer
#20. A single bed with blood in it. Blood on the pillow and on the sheets and even on the enameled metal of the bed frame. Pink rags in a basin. Half-unrolled bandage on the floor. The nurse bustles over and grimaces at Werner. Outside of the kitchens, she is the only woman at the school.
Anthony Doerr
#21. There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.
Finn Jones
#22. South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
Richard Stanley
#23. Mostly he misses Jutta: her loyalty, her obstinacy, the way she always seems to recognize what is right. Though in Werner's weaker moments, he resents those same qualities in his sister. Perhaps she's the impurity in him, the static in his signal that the bullies can sense.
Anthony Doerr
#24. Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption?
Anthony Doerr
#25. Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.
Finn Jones
#26. Jutta opens her eyes but doesn't look at him. 'Don't tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don't lie to me.
Anthony Doerr
#27. The star-flooded nights, the dew-soaked dawns, the hushed ambulatories, the enforced asceticism - never has Werner felt part of something so single-minded.
Anthony Doerr
#28. Werner, that you're from, nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. Think you'll do something great.
Anthony Doerr
#29. [On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#30. Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?" He says, "Not in years. But today. Today maybe I did.
Anthony Doerr
#31. I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know ... foreigners.
Peter Falk
#32. When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? He
Anthony Doerr
#33. In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
Philippe Petit
#34. My name is Richard Werner. Dick. You can call me Dick.
Ray Palla
#35. Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.
Wim Wenders
#36. They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. I think you'll do something great.
Anthony Doerr
#37. Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz's unsung heroes
Harvey Pekar
#38. I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
Werner Herzog
#39. You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large ... Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.
Melisa M. Hamling
#40. Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens
but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.
Julia Glass
#41. Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.
Anthony Doerr
#42. I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
Werner Klemperer
#43. Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
Werner Herzog
#44. The thing that becomes true about you is the thing you think the most often.
Kenny Werner
#45. The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.
Werner Heisenberg
#46. There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.
Werner Herzog
#47. The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
Werner Herzog
#48. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#49. What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.
Werner Erhard
#50. Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of " capital ." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.
Werner Sombart
#51. I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
Werner Herzog
#52. You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
Werner Herzog
#53. The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.
Werner Heisenberg
#54. There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.
Werner Herzog
#55. I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can be considered as a challenge.
Werner Heisenberg
#56. [Alan] Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind.
Werner Erhard
#57. I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Werner Herzog
#58. The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
Werner Herzog
#59. Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
Werner Von Braun
#60. I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
Werner Herzog
#61. A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.
Kenny Werner
#62. Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with a given velocity, and can we make these approximations so close that they do not cause experimental difficulties?
Werner Heisenberg
#64. It is only through writing that I become myself
Werner Herzog
#65. You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.
Werner Herzog
#66. If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
Werner Herzog
#67. Your power is a function of velocity, that is to say, your power is a function of the rate at which you translate intention into reality. Most of us disempower ourselves by finding a way to slow, impede, or make more complex than necessary the process of translating intention into reality.
Werner Erhard
#68. I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
Werner Herzog
#69. The reaction you got was the communication you intended.
Werner Erhard
#70. The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#71. In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.
Werner Heisenberg
#72. You're either the one that creates the automation or you're getting automated.
Tom Preston-Werner
#73. May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
Werner Herzog
#74. What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
Werner Herzog
#76. There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.
Werner Sombart
#77. I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.
Werner Herzog
#78. This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
Werner Erhard
#79. The chicken's still dancing
the chicken won't stop
Sarah Kane
#80. Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.
Werner Heisenberg
#81. I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
Werner Herzog
#82. Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.
Werner Heisenberg
#83. There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
Werner Herzog
#84. If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.
Werner Herzog
#85. Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere.
If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it.
Werner Erhard
#86. I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
Oskar Werner
#87. In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
Werner Heisenberg
#88. I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.
Alfred Werner
#89. Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds.
Alfred Werner
#90. I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
Kenny Werner
#91. Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
Werner Herzog
#92. There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.
Werner Herzog
#93. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#94. I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
Werner Herzog
#95. Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.
Werner Herzog
#96. Create your future from your future not your past.
Werner Erhard
#97. You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
Werner Erhard
#99. It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.
Werner Heisenberg
#100. Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.
Werner Erhard
