Bernd Heinrich Quotes

For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

Bernd Heinrich

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• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Mind
  • College

• There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Looking Back

• You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Job
  • Me
  • Waiting

• Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Always
  • Start
  • Circle

• On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Food

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Poetry
  • Idea
  • Bank

• When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Doubt

• I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.

  

  Eminem
  • Blue

• With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...

  

  Anna Sui
  • Important
  • Fashion

• Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Why
  • Forever
  • Baby

• You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • World
  • Childhood

• Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Believe
  • American

• Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

  

  Franz Boas
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Perfect

• I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage.

  

  Bob Casey, Jr.
  • Support
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Influence
  • Transient
  • Sensational

• I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • May
  • Future

• The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Truth
  • History
  • Faith

• For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Spring
  • Existence
  • Reduced