Bernard Baruch Quotes
I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
Quotes to Explore
-
My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
-
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
-
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
-
I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
-
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
-
The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
-
The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
-
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
-
I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
-
It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
-
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
-
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
-
My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
-
I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
-
Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
-
Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
-
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
-
I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
-
Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.
-
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
-
Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.
-
I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.
-
You can't unscramble eggs.
-
I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
