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Bernard Berenson Quotes

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Bernard Berenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 26, 1865 - October 6, 1959

Topics

Hat People Me Busy Stand Hand

I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.

Father Business Job School Fun Law

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Live Children Football Society Now

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

Work Way Observe Part

Sometimes I - with comedy, it's like someone liking you in high school. They either do, or they don't. And when they don't, they don't. And that's it. There are no appeals. You show up, and you're like, 'Hi! I'm -' and you stumble, and they're like, 'It's over.'

School High School Comedy Someone Up

Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.

Robert Zoellick

Mountain Country Tourism Industry

Actually, my real name is not Mona. It's Jasmeet. I changed it to Mona when I came to Mumbai.

Name Real Mumbai Mona Changed Came

If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.

Want Write Broadway Going Show

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

Run Never Out Contract Pursue Did

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

Domhnall Gleeson

Father Myself Me Way Younger

A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.

People Social Online Manage Myspace

I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure.

Dreams Brain Control Process Anxiety

Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.

Life Education Goals Future Never

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