Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Isaiah Berlin Quotes

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
Isaiah Berlin

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin


Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Isaiah Berlin

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
Isaiah Berlin

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
Isaiah Berlin

To understand is to perceive patterns.
Isaiah Berlin

Irving Berlin Quotes

After you get what you want you don't want it.
Irving Berlin

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin

I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin


Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
Irving Berlin

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Irving Berlin

There's no business like show business.
Irving Berlin

There's no people like show people.
Irving Berlin

You're not sick you're just in love.
Irving Berlin

Milton Berle Quotes

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
Milton Berle

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
Milton Berle


I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.
Milton Berle

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
Milton Berle

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.
Milton Berle

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Milton Berle

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Milton Berle

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
Milton Berle

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
Milton Berle

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
Milton Berle

Daisy Berkowitz Quotes

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
Daisy Berkowitz

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
Daisy Berkowitz

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
Daisy Berkowitz


I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Daisy Berkowitz

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
Daisy Berkowitz

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
Daisy Berkowitz

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
Daisy Berkowitz

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Daisy Berkowitz

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Daisy Berkowitz

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
Daisy Berkowitz

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
Daisy Berkowitz

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
Daisy Berkowitz

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
Daisy Berkowitz

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Daisy Berkowitz

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.
Daisy Berkowitz

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Daisy Berkowitz

Steven Berkoff Quotes

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
Steven Berkoff

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
Steven Berkoff

In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
Steven Berkoff


The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
Steven Berkoff

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
Steven Berkoff

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
Steven Berkoff

Alexander Berkman Quotes

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
Alexander Berkman

Shelley Berkley Quotes

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
Shelley Berkley

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed.
Shelley Berkley


Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.
Shelley Berkley

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
Shelley Berkley

Elizabeth Berkley Quotes

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
Elizabeth Berkley

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.
Elizabeth Berkley

Xander Berkeley Quotes


Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
Xander Berkeley

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
Xander Berkeley

I don't look too far ahead.
Xander Berkeley


I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
Xander Berkeley

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
Xander Berkeley

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
Xander Berkeley

William Berkeley Quotes

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace.
William Berkeley

Reginald Berkeley Quotes

We have to have wars now and then just to prove we're top dog.
Reginald Berkeley

George Berkeley Quotes

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
George Berkeley

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
George Berkeley

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
George Berkeley


He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Berkeley

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George Berkeley

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.
George Berkeley

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
George Berkeley

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
George Berkeley

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
George Berkeley

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
George Berkeley

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
George Berkeley

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George Berkeley

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
George Berkeley

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
George Berkeley

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
George Berkeley

Busby Berkeley Quotes

I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour.
Busby Berkeley

Luciano Berio Quotes

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.
Luciano Berio

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
Luciano Berio

Henri Bergson Quotes

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
Henri Bergson

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
Henri Bergson

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
Henri Bergson


For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
Henri Bergson

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
Henri Bergson

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Henri Bergson

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
Henri Bergson

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
Henri Bergson

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
Henri Bergson

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
Henri Bergson

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Henri Bergson

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
Henri Bergson

It seems that laughter needs an echo.
Henri Bergson

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
Henri Bergson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
Henri Bergson

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Henri Bergson

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson

Peter Bergman Quotes

I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.
Peter Bergman

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


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

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

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

Ingrid Bergman Quotes

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Ingrid Bergman

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman


Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
Ingrid Bergman

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
Ingrid Bergman

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
Ingrid Bergman

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
Ingrid Bergman

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
Ingrid Bergman

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Ingrid Bergman

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman

I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.
Ingrid Bergman

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
Ingrid Bergman

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid Bergman

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
Ingrid Bergman

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Ingrid Bergman

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Quotes

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
Ingmar Bergman

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Ingmar Bergman

I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Ingmar Bergman

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
Ingmar Bergman

Dennis Bergkamp Quotes

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
Dennis Bergkamp

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.
Dennis Bergkamp

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
Dennis Bergkamp


I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.
Dennis Bergkamp

I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.
Dennis Bergkamp

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.
Dennis Bergkamp

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
Dennis Bergkamp

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.
Dennis Bergkamp

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.
Dennis Bergkamp

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.
Dennis Bergkamp

So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
Dennis Bergkamp

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.
Dennis Bergkamp

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come.
Dennis Bergkamp

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.
Dennis Bergkamp

We're still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.
Dennis Bergkamp

What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.
Dennis Bergkamp

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.
Dennis Bergkamp

Michael Bergin Quotes

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Michael Bergin

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.
Michael Bergin

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.
Michael Bergin

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Michael Bergin

I didn't know a damn thing about style.
Michael Bergin

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.
Michael Bergin

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.
Michael Bergin

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.
Michael Bergin

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
Michael Bergin

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.
Michael Bergin

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Michael Bergin

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
Michael Bergin

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.
Michael Bergin

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.
Michael Bergin

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.
Michael Bergin

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
Michael Bergin

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.
Michael Bergin

New York is tough on lonely people.
Michael Bergin

Thank God for little miracles, right?
Michael Bergin

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
Michael Bergin

Henry Bergh Quotes

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.
Henry Bergh

Tom Bergeron Quotes

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
Tom Bergeron

I work best when people are here to puncture me.
Tom Bergeron


I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game.
Tom Bergeron

Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!
Tom Bergeron

We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.
Tom Bergeron

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.
Tom Bergeron

Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Cyrano de Bergerac

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano de Bergerac

Thomas Berger Quotes

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Thomas Berger

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Thomas Berger

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

Sandy Berger Quotes

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.
Sandy Berger

Philip E. Berger Quotes

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.
Philip E. Berger

The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.
Philip E. Berger

Phil Berger Quotes

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.
Phil Berger

Peter L. Berger Quotes

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
Peter L. Berger

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
Peter L. Berger

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger


I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
Peter L. Berger

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.
Peter L. Berger

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
Peter L. Berger

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.
Peter L. Berger

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
Peter L. Berger

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.
Peter L. Berger

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
Peter L. Berger

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
Peter L. Berger

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.
Peter L. Berger

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.
Peter L. Berger

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.
Peter L. Berger

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
Peter L. Berger

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
Peter L. Berger

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
Peter L. Berger

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
Peter L. Berger

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.
Peter L. Berger

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.
Peter L. Berger

Peter Berger Quotes

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter Berger

John Berger Quotes

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
John Berger

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
John Berger


Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
John Berger

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
John Berger

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
John Berger

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
John Berger

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
John Berger

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
John Berger

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
John Berger

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berger

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
John Berger

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
John Berger

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
John Berger

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
John Berger

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
John Berger

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
John Berger

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
John Berger

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
John Berger

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger

Hans Berger Quotes

In Germany I am not so famous.
Hans Berger

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
Hans Berger

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
Hans Berger

Arthur Berger Quotes

Sometimes you know you find precious things in the creative process that you couldn't find out of it.
Arthur Berger

Edgar Bergen Quotes

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
Edgar Bergen

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
Edgar Bergen

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
Edgar Bergen


I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
Edgar Bergen

I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
Edgar Bergen

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Edgar Bergen

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
Edgar Bergen

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Edgar Bergen

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
Edgar Bergen

Candice Bergen Quotes

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
Candice Bergen

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
Candice Bergen

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
Candice Bergen

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
Candice Bergen


Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen

Glamorized... am I glamorous?
Candice Bergen

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
Candice Bergen

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
Candice Bergen

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
Candice Bergen

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
Candice Bergen

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
Candice Bergen

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
Candice Bergen

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen

I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
Candice Bergen

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
Candice Bergen

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
Candice Bergen

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
Candice Bergen

Michael Bergdahl Quotes


At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.
Michael Bergdahl


Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.
Michael Bergdahl

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
Michael Bergdahl

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.
Michael Bergdahl

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.
Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.
Michael Bergdahl

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.
Michael Bergdahl

Jose Bergamin Quotes

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Jose Bergamin

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Jose Bergamin


A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Jose Bergamin

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
Jose Bergamin

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Jose Bergamin

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
Jose Bergamin

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
Jose Bergamin

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Jose Bergamin

Happiness is always a coincidence.
Jose Bergamin

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
Jose Bergamin

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Jose Bergamin

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
Jose Bergamin

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Jose Bergamin

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Jose Bergamin

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Jose Bergamin

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
Jose Bergamin

Jose Bergaman Quotes

Art is good but it isn't the best.
Jose Bergaman

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
Jose Bergaman

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
Jose Bergaman


Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
Jose Bergaman

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
Jose Bergaman

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
Jose Bergaman

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
Jose Bergaman

Peter Berg Quotes

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
Peter Berg

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
Peter Berg

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
Peter Berg


There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
Peter Berg

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
Peter Berg

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
Peter Berg

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
Peter Berg

You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Peter Berg

Paul Berg Quotes

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
Paul Berg

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
Paul Berg

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
Paul Berg


By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
Paul Berg

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
Paul Berg

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
Paul Berg

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
Paul Berg

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
Paul Berg

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
Paul Berg

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul Berg

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.
Paul Berg

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
Paul Berg

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
Paul Berg

Patty Berg Quotes

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.
Patty Berg

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.
Patty Berg

It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.
Patty Berg


People are what this election is all about.
Patty Berg

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.
Patty Berg

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Patty Berg

Alban Berg Quotes

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
Alban Berg

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
Alban Berg