Lehmann Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it — Jens Lehmann

Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine? — Rosamond Lehmann

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation. — Rosamond Lehmann

I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. "Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. "And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. "What thoughtwent flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?" But Five made answer solemnly, "I heard them fire a gun, "No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done." — R. C. Lehmann

Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year. — Rachel Lehmann-Haupt

I can't tell you how hard it is to make a dark-humored movie in Hollywood. — Michael Lehmann

It's the thought that counts. — Rosamond Lehmann

There was sadness in everything - in the room, in the ringing bird-calls from the garden, in the lit, golden lawn beyond the window, with its single miraculous cherry-tree breaking in immaculate blossom and tossing long foamy sprays against the sky. She was sad to the verge of tears, and yet the sorrow was rich - a suffocating joy. — Rosamond Lehmann

When two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen. — Rosamond Lehmann

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go — Jens Lehmann

You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that. — Michael Lehmann

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history. — Rosamond Lehmann

It's funny: as a director, there are movies you make because you're passionate about getting your vision across, and you know that you're vision is different than anybody else. In those cases, you take the plunge, and it works, or it doesn't. You make the stylistic choices based on how you feel about the material. — Michael Lehmann

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared. — Lotte Lehmann

I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility. — Michael Lehmann

You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life.
(after not being picked starting goalie) — Jens Lehmann

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm. — Rosamond Lehmann

The present mood in which they sat relaxed was nothing more than the relief of two people coming back to a bombed building once familiar, shared as a dwelling, and finding all over the smashed foundations a rose-ash haze of willow herb. No more, no less. It is a ruin; but suspense at least, at least the need for sterile resolution, have evaporated with the fact of the return. Terror of nothingness contracts before the contemplation of it. It is not, after all, vacancy, but space; an area razed, roped off by time; by time refertilized, sown with a transfiguration, a ruin-haunting, ghost-spun No Man's crop of grace. — Rosamond Lehmann

People always say, 'Why don't you make more movies like 'Heathers'?' And I say, 'I've been trying for 20 years.' — Michael Lehmann

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in. — Jens Lehmann

He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself. — Jens Lehmann

One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny. — Jens Lehmann

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

A bookshelf is a biography written by others. — Kat Lehmann

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception. — Lotte Lehmann

Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly. — Jens Lehmann

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies. — Michael Lehmann

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under. — Michael Lehmann

Another five minutes, thought Olivia, and shut her eyes. Not to fall asleep again; but to go back as it were and do the thing gradually---detach oneself softly, float up serenely from the clinging delectable fringes. Oh, heavenly sleep! Why must one cast it from one, all unprepared, unwilling? Caught out again by Kate in the very act! You're not trying , you could wake up if you wanted to: that was their attitude. And regularly one began the day convicted of inferiority, of a sluggish voluptuous nature, seriously lacking in will-power. — Rosamond Lehmann

They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't. — Jens Lehmann

Anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose. — Rosamond Lehmann

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I love 'Heathers,' and I loved doing that movie. I'm very proud of it, so if it gets brought up, I'm happy. — Michael Lehmann

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters. — Michael Lehmann

I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother? — Michael Lehmann

I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether. — Jens Lehmann

He does not have my class. — Jens Lehmann

People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. — Kat Lehmann

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long — Jens Lehmann

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith. — Karl Lehmann

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann — Jonathan Kellerman

Seemed like no matter how much money people had, they were desperate to have more, desperate to look good compared to everyone else. Why bother to impress when all anyone else cared about was how impressive THEY were? — Stephanie Lehmann

Convention is another name for the habits of society. — Rosamond Lehmann

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it. — Lotte Lehmann

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. — Rosamond Lehmann

He who stands still, goes backward. — Lille Lehmann

I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with celebrities or whatever. It might be a bit boring but I have to give values to my children. — Jens Lehmann

It'll all come right. Because, of course, I do believe...I believe - I believe in everything...sun, moon, stars, in seasons - trees, flowers - people, music, life...yes, in life. — Rosamond Lehmann

No satisfactory historical linguistic study was carried out before the beginning of the nineteenth century, and accordingly linguists had to develop appropriate methods for the new field. Like other new sciences, historical linguistics then looked to those that had developed useful methods. The greatest help came from comparative anatomy. — Winfred P. Lehmann

I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later. — Inge Lehmann

Still, now and then they seemed to be holding behind them the surprising, the magic vistas of childhood - the sudden snow at night, whirling and furring without sound against the window; the full moon and all its shadows on the lawn; the Christmas sleigh and reindeer in the sky. — Rosamond Lehmann

In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect. — Jens Lehmann

For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony ... — Lotte Lehmann

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
Lotte Lehmann — Lotte Lehmann

I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour, each day, and be alone; and read and think; and walk about the garden in the night; and wait, wait... — Rosamond Lehmann

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc. — Karl Lehmann

My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket. — Jens Lehmann

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point. — Karl Lehmann

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church. — Karl Lehmann

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing. — Rosamond Lehmann

At Arsenal we play a very attractive, offensive style so I always have to be aware of counter attacks when you have to shift your position a lot more. — Jens Lehmann

Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to year. It is safe in this house. — Rosamond Lehmann

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain. — Inge Lehmann

I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it. — Michael Lehmann

I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, conceited, and material-minded. For instance, lately whenever I've tried to concentrate on anything serious or beautiful, I've started thinking about the Spencers' dance next week. I am ashamed of my pettiness. I'm going to try to do better this year
develop my character more and not always be thinking about enjoying myself. I've always been so happy, I dread disappointment and unhappiness, but they would be good for me. But I don't want them. — Rosamond Lehmann

The fact is, one shouldn't go to parties when one is in love. It makes one act aloof and superior and everyone distrusts you. — Rosamond Lehmann

In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. — Karl Lehmann

When students become empowered to ask questions and seek out answers, everything changes, and you cannot - and should not - think that you can leave inquiry at the classroom door. When teachers see themselves as learners and researchers and planners, they will question traditions and policies. And as a community, everyone has to learn how to bring these ideas to bear to make the school whole. We must understand that this is what is — Chris Lehmann

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue. — Lotte Lehmann

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. — Lotte Lehmann

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it. — Michael Lehmann

When I started 'Hudson Hawk,' I realized I was dealing with a strong-willed producer, a strong-willed actor, and, at times, a strong-willed studio, and I was the junior partner in all of this - the guy who hadn't proven anything in terms of box-office success. — Michael Lehmann

I've done movies that have mostly feminine characters and elements, and I think that both 'Heathers' and 'Truth About Cats and Dogs' are, in their own weird ways - they're different ends of the girl movie spectrum, but they're very much centered around the female characters, and I like those movies, and I like working with good actresses. — Michael Lehmann

If I have a lot of adrenaline in my body, that is helpful because I feel less pain — Jens Lehmann

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel. — Karl Lehmann

I understand that it takes patience, but there are also positive signs. H. U. von Balthasar, the theologian who probably has the greatest influence in the Catholic world for the moment, has handed down a very positive verdict on my book. Likewise, K. Lehmann, who is the theologian of the German Bishops' Conference. So I think that your thinking will gradually prevail, even if there is resistance and difficulties for the moment. — Scott Cowdell

People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will. — Rosamond Lehmann

Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church. — Karl Lehmann

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those. — Karl Lehmann

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket — Jens Lehmann

A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel. — Michael Lehmann

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. — Karl Lehmann

This criticism of Wolffian monism is by no means Kant's own accomplishment. In the first introduction to the Critique of Judgment he writes: "Yet it is quite easy to establish, and has in fact been realized for some time, that this attempt to bring unity into that diversity of faculties, though otherwise undertaken in the genuine philosophical spirit, is futile."25 However, if we seek to determine who was the first to have that insight, then both Kant's text and Lehmann's — Anonymous

I've had them both, and I don't think much of either. — Beatrix Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs. — Michael Lehmann

I got on the elevator without giving him the chance to kiss me. We stood across from each other, two sad people in a situation that couldn't be fixed. I waited for the door to slide shut between us. — Stephanie Lehmann

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. — Rosamond Lehmann

In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones. — Rosamond Lehmann

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them. — Rosamond Lehmann

I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.' — Jens Lehmann

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes. — Michael Lehmann