Werner Herzog Quotes

The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

Werner Herzog

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• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Genetics

• What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • World
  • Future

• The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

  

  David Suzuki

• People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Opportunity
  • Wish

• We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Men
  • Death

• In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Paris

• If you think you aren't valid for whatever reason, let my existence and the way the world embraces my existence tell you that you are valid. You deserve to look, live, and walk through the world however you see fit. That's why I find it extremely important to be so out, so black, and so myself.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

  

  Billy Wilder
  • Interesting

• Jane Austen is very amusing.

  

  James Callis

• Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Wishes

• My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • Fun
  • Parents
  • Community

• There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • Music
  • Value
  • Listening

• Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?

  

  Mark Steyn

• I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Balance

• Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Life
  • Time

• But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Remember
  • Destroyed
  • Glad

• I would be surprised... if someone at CBS wasn't thinking that eventually Johnny's gonna retire and if we have somebody in place, we'll be in good shape.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Good
  • Thinking

• There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Culture

• When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

  

  Elizabeth Berg

• The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

  

  Werner Herzog
  • Thinking
  • Harmony
  • Overwhelming