Jeffrey Bernard Quotes

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

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• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Actor

• Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Jump

• When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Intent

• Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

  

  Randy Falco
  • You
  • More
  • Where

• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Know
  • Opinions

• Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Remember
  • You
  • Isolation

• Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Success
  • Peace
  • Action

• We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Made

• The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Hope
  • Sun
  • Sky

• Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Family

• Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Mind
  • Food

• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Business
  • High
  • Free

• If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Sense
  • Changes
  • Landscape

• Piano is like drudgery.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Piano
  • Drudgery

• General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Confidence
  • Advice

• If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary policy or to the broader macroeconomic environment.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • House
  • Relationship
  • Taken

• I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

  

  Becky Stark
  • Music
  • Way
  • Role

• There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

  

  Dave Van Ronk
  • Help

• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Drinking
  • Stopped

• Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

  

  Jeffrey Bernard
  • Drinking