Bernard Berenson Quotes

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Bernard Berenson

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• The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
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• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
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• Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

  

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• Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

  

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• I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
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• Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

  

  W. G. Sebald
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• The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

  

  Flula Borg
  • English
  • Say
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• An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.

  

  Ed Weeks
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• of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.

  

  Victor Borge
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• Surely there is no language more majestic than that of Shakespeare, Milton, and the King James Bible, and if I am to have one language that I know as only a native can know it, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate that it is English.

  

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• Sartre observed that he had never felt so free as during the German occupation when (as a member of the French resistance) he was in constant danger of being arrested and shot. Could there be a more conclusive proof that human beings are freer than they realize, and that their freedom is eroded by habit and laziness?

  

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• Pilar sat squeezed up against the window and thought how very odd the English smelt.

  

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• I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.

  

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• So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just before the end even treason might be worth a tryThis country is too young to dieI declare the war is overIt's over, it's over.

  

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• The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

  

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• I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Golf
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• I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.

  

  Katherine Parkinson
  • Time
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  • Engagement

• German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • English
  • German
  • Tolerate