Top 176 Bernard Quotes & Sayings

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.

Bernard [Leach] had acquired many [Shoji] Hamada works. Some of them, it was interesting - first of all, Hamada worked in St. Ives for about four years before returning to Japan to start his own pottery. He had exhibitions in London, and if these exhibitions didn't sell out, the galleries were instructed to send the remaining work down to the Leach Pottery, where they would go into the showroom for sale. If Bernard saw one that hadn't sold that he really admired, then he would take it (he would buy it), and it would go into the house.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

We had a wonderful trip, a seven-day trip, talking and sitting in the sun and so forth [with Bernard Leach]. And as we were approaching England, Leach said, "Do you have a place to live?" And we said, "No, we didn't." We hadn't worried about that. But Bernard had just separated from his second wife, which we had not realized, and Bernard was a person who could not stand to live alone. So he said, "Would you like to share my house with me?" Naturally we said yes.

My second pro fight, I fought on the Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins undercard.

Bernard Hopkins is one of my idols.

I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

I have a St. Bernard named B.

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.

We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard!

At the end of that two weeks Bernard [Leach] asked us if we would like to sit with him tending the kiln, the big oil-fired kiln that they had. He was still sitting what we call a kiln watch at that time, and he wondered if we would like to sit the watch with him and talk. So naturally this was our last opportunity to talk with him, so we said yes. We didn't realize Bernard's kiln watch was from 1:00 in the morning until 4:00 AM.

Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?

Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating.

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.

Some of my favorite scores include Bernard Herrmann's Hitchcock scores.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

I have a St Bernard dog. They are very tough to take care of in the tropical weather in Chennai. They usually are found in mountains and the snow.

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

I was obsessed with 'The Twilight Zone' as a kid, and one of those things I didn't realize until I was in college was that I had been listening to Bernard Herrmann all my life.

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.' Bernard began to sing again. Timidly, Leigh-Cheri joined in. Between verses, they opened another bottle. The popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. Of the three billion people on earth, only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. Only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri passed out under the tablecloth.

It was there that we really first came in contact with the work of Shoji Hamada, who was Bernard's best friend from Japan, who had come from Japan back to England with [Bernard] Leach when Leach was establishing his pottery.

I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975] and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made.

Who knows how long I have got left. I could be like Bernard Hopkins.

Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

No one's kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

Bernard King is the only guy that ever scared the hell out of me.

My personal feeling is that Bernard Hopkins has never been an industry boy.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

I loved Bernard Cornwell's books.

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

Bernard King said something great about me? Wow, he's one of the best. I'm definitely honored and very thankful.