David Bergen Quotes

As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

David Bergen

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• I ended the war a horse ahead.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • War
  • Horse
  • Ahead

• After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Study
  • Medicine
  • Biology

• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Succeed

• I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Today

• I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strong

• I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Words
  • Prejudice

• In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • World
  • Power
  • Light

• I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Look
  • Lazy
  • Window

• If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.

  

  Zendaya
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Giving

• If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Values
  • Act
  • Be Prepared

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Food

• In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• In economics the tendency of theory to lag behind observation seems to be endemic, and, as theorists, few of us consider this to be a 'terrible state.' But as noted by Lakatos (1978, p. 6), 'where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.'

  

  Vernon L. Smith

• Ain't going down 'til the sun comes up;Ain't givin' in 'til they get enough.Going 'round the world in a pickup truck,Ain't goin' down 'til the sun comes up.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • World
  • Sun

• We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • World
  • Good

• If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Live

• The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.

  

  Charles Dickens

• There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Heaven
  • Hell
  • Karma

• I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Time
  • School
  • English

• And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Good
  • Important
  • Character

• It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

  

  Kelsey Grammer

• As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

  

  David Bergen