Berkmann Quotes & Sayings

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi. — Phil Donahue

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still. — Zadie Smith

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be. — Andrew McMahon

Hegel's philosophy is very difficult - he is, I should say, the hardest to understand of all the great philosophers. Before entering on any detail, a general characterization may prove helpful. — Bertrand Russell

For the first time in my life, I was eating well and from plates - glass plates, no less, not out of the frying pan because somebody lost all the plates in the last move. Now when we ate, we sat at a fine round oak table in sturdy chairs that matched. No one rushed through the meal or argued over who got the biggest portion, and we ate three times a day. — John William Tuohy

Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and they all retaliate by voting for each other every year and ignoring our (sometimes) palpably superior songs. Accordingly, Britain has become the Millwall FC of Eurovision: we are hated, we know we are hated, and we pretend we are happy to be hated. It's actually quite a sad state of affairs. — Marcus Berkmann

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt. — Barbara Boxer

I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster. — Rabindranath Tagore

I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'. — Russell Means

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Further communication with her husband seemed hopeless. Between them yawned the chasm that divides those who have consumed champagne before breakfast from those who have not. — Helen Cresswell