Bernard Berenson Quotes

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Bernard Berenson

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• I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Hate

• Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Television

• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • May
  • Bad
  • Hope

• Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • She
  • Looking
  • Lady

• I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Live
  • Like
  • Cheap

• You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

  

  Alice Munro
  • Real
  • Parents

• I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in myself, nothing, neither the fugitive tenderness of those lovely eyes, nor the noises of the street, nor the false dawn of early morning: and even so the minute passes and I do not hold it back, I like to see it pass.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Trying
  • Eyes
  • Morning

• The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Work
  • Important
  • Help

• I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

  

  Bobby McFerrin

• There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Food

• I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Fun

• That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

  

  Piers Anthony

• I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.

  

  Adhir Kalyan

• I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Character
  • Bad

• I didn't know much about the 'Walking Dead' until after I booked the gig, and then I watched the first four seasons. I binge watched them in two weeks, and at that moment I realised, 'Oh, this is a much bigger thing than I thought it was.'

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Walking

• But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.

  

  Jim Cantalupo

• I think anyone who wants to live past 100 can do it.

  

  David H. Murdock
  • Live
  • Past

• Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

  

  Martin Delany
  • People
  • Destiny

• There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

  

  Charles Rennie Mackintosh
  • Honest
  • Perfection

• Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he - oh, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Patriotic

• I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Trying
  • America
  • Responsibility

• What's important is that we see each year what the opportunities are, and make use of the opportunity.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Picture-taster
  • Tasters