Bernhard's Quotes

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences. — Ruth Bernhard

People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold. — Bernhard Langer

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved. — Sandra Bernhard

To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I. — Bernhard Schlink

I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them. — Sandra Bernhard

It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other. — Sandra Bernhard

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore. — Sandra Bernhard

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences. — Thomas Bernhard

It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It — Thomas Bernhard

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity. — Sandra Bernhard

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star. — Sandra Bernhard

You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me. — Bernhard Schlink

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same. — Bernhard Langer

Because in the end nothing matters all that much, as he also wrote on another slip, and on his last slip he'd written, it's all the same. — Thomas Bernhard

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship. — Bernhard Langer

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all. — Sandra Bernhard

Photography is art when it's used by an artist. — Ruth Bernhard

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well. — Sandra Bernhard

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty. — Sandra Bernhard

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ... — Thomas Bernhard

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society. — Bernhard Goetz

I hate to judge everybody across the board. — Sandra Bernhard

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit. — Sandra Bernhard

Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent. — Thomas Bernhard

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness. — Sandra Bernhard

Gay pride's beautiful. If somebody needs to be expressing that, then it's a positive thing. — Sandra Bernhard

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives? — Sandra Bernhard

They teach everything at schools but there is no textbook to teach how to get acquainted to a person. — Bernhard Kellermann

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. — Ruth Bernhard

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95. — Ruth Bernhard

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does. — Bernhard Schlink

The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for. — Bernhard Schlink

It's nobody's business how you do something. — Sandra Bernhard

But of course it was precisely this destruction process of my beloved Steinway that I had wanted. — Thomas Bernhard

It's up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I'm not sure I'm on the radar screen of Paul McGinley. — Bernhard Langer

I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture it's beauty. — Bernhard Schlink

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost. — Thomas Bernhard

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer. — Ruth Bernhard

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser. — Bernhard Langer

Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out. — Sandra Bernhard

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight. — Bernhard Schlink

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated. — Bernhard Schlink

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts. — Bernhard Langer

I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves. — Bernhard Schlink

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material. — Sandra Bernhard

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life. — Bernhard Goetz

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished. — Sandra Bernhard

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. — Sandra Bernhard

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know. — Sandra Bernhard

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold. — Bernhard Langer

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing. — Sandra Bernhard

I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature. — Sandra Bernhard

I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility. — Sandra Bernhard

I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting. — Sandra Bernhard

The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed. — Sandra Bernhard

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights. — Bernhard Schlink

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all. — Sandra Bernhard

But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general. — Bernhard Langer

There will come a day when Anne Heche will be straight again. — Sandra Bernhard

Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death — Thomas Bernhard

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality. — Sandra Bernhard

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death. — Bernhard Schlink

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes. — Bernhard Langer

I like the energy of live performance. — Sandra Bernhard

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world. — Sandra Bernhard

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal. — Bernhard Schlink

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again. — Sandra Bernhard

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs. — Thomas Bernhard

You can argue with the way things are. You'll lose, but only 100% of the time. - BYRON KATIE — Toni Bernhard

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty. — Sandra Bernhard

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist — Thomas Bernhard

Kids need to be educated about sex and sexuality and if they're going to have sex, learn how to protect themselves and not get pregnant. — Sandra Bernhard

I knew none of it then - if indeed I know any of it now and am not just making patterns in the air. — Bernhard Schlink

I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose. — Sandra Bernhard

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs. — Sandra Bernhard

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with. — Thomas Bernhard

I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that. — Sandra Bernhard

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together. — Thomas Bernhard

All schools are bad and the one we attend is always the worst if it doesn't open our eyes. What — Thomas Bernhard

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. — Thomas Bernhard

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing. — Sandra Bernhard

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable. — Thomas Bernhard

You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way. — Sandra Bernhard

I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. — Marie Curie

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors. — Sandra Bernhard

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. — Ruth Bernhard

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself. — Ruth Bernhard

You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game. — Bernhard Langer

Children are begotten by their parents out of sheer malice and dragged into the world out of the greatest imaginable inconsiderateness. — Thomas Bernhard

To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal. — Ruth Bernhard

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life. — Sandra Bernhard

Bravery is good when the cause is good. — Bernhard Schlink

Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian. — Sandra Bernhard

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ. — Sandra Bernhard

I feel that is more important than my work, the influence I have on my students. — Ruth Bernhard

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera. — Ruth Bernhard

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think. — Thomas Bernhard

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things. — Bernhard Langer

I always say yes to everything because I always feel that whatever comes my way, life meant for me. — Ruth Bernhard