Bernhardiin Quotes & Sayings

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently. — A.S. Byatt

What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I do know that as the novel takes shape on the page, it's hard for characters' lives not to intersect with the writer's own life. As we unpack our characters' stories and actions, it's hard not to unpack our own history. — Jacqueline Woodson

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone. — A.E. Housman

I suppose that, so long as the human mind exists, it will not escape its deep-seated instinct to personify its intellectual conceptions. The science of the present day is as full of this particular form of intellectual shadow-worship as is the nescience of ignorant ages. The difference is that the philosopher who is worthy of the name knows that his personified hypotheses, such as law, force and ether, and the like, are merely useful symbols, while the ignorant and the careless take them for adequate expressions of reality. — Thomas Henry Huxley

I'm always jumping on a plane somewhere. With my lifestyle, I'm all over the place. — Cameron Diaz

Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences ... that all the members of a scientific community must share in the course of a [scientific] revolution. Revolutions should be described not in terms of group experience but in terms of the varied experiences of individual group members. Indeed, that variety itself turns out to play an essential role in the evolution of scientific knowledge. — Thomas Kuhn

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us. — Ray Dalio

I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own. — Kelly Rowland

If you cannot do it to the best of your ability, don't do it at all... — Donna Mae Smith

Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather. — Dale Evans