Jacques Herzog quote: "The people surround the pitch, under the sky or under the floodlights and that it's it. It's really like an instrument of perception. You cannot only design a building to make it beautiful. It has to really work well with the huge crowd that is using it."

It's people only that you see, there's very little architecture that you see inside,
JACQUES HERZOG

We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are...
JACQUES HERZOG

Our goal here was to give equal importance to visitors, nature and art,
JACQUES HERZOG

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
WERNER HERZOG

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
WERNER HERZOG

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefe...
WERNER HERZOG

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars ...
WERNER HERZOG

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious...
WERNER HERZOG

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had m...
WERNER HERZOG

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next y...
WHITEY HERZOG

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has c...
WERNER HERZOG

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vid...
WERNER HERZOG

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a t...
WERNER HERZOG

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
WERNER HERZOG

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you strugg...
WHITEY HERZOG

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
WERNER HERZOG

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much ra...
WERNER HERZOG

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music...
WERNER HERZOG

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the en...
WERNER HERZOG

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
WERNER HERZOG

I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a drea...
WERNER HERZOG

Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.
ARTHUR HERZOG

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.
ARTHUR HERZOG

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
ARTHUR HERZOG

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
ARTHUR HERZOG

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major r...
ARTHUR HERZOG

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two character...
ARTHUR HERZOG

But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within ...
ARTHUR HERZOG

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
ARTHUR HERZOG

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness
ARTHUR HERZOG

Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 One of the catchwords...
ARTHUR HERZOG

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for ex...
WERNER HERZOG

Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.
ISAAC HERZOG

Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.
ISAAC HERZOG

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a g...
WERNER HERZOG

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When...
WERNER HERZOG

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelli...
WERNER HERZOG

With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built th...
ISAAC HERZOG

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidit...
WERNER HERZOG

Demographic trends are working against the brewers.
BONNIE HERZOG

Demographic trends are working against the brewers,
BONNIE HERZOG

Coke needs to prove that it can string two successful years together.
BONNIE HERZOG

The concern was with $3 billion, the flood gates were open. This helps to alleviate some of that con...
BONNIE HERZOG

I'd rather have this thing filed sooner rather than later so we can deal with it.
BONNIE HERZOG

Molson Coors' third-quarter results were driven primarily by a very favorable effective tax rate of ...
BONNIE HERZOG

We think North American trends are solid and expect Europe to be much improved in 2006.
BONNIE HERZOG

We continue to believe the probability is very low that either Philip Morris or Reynolds American bu...
BONNIE HERZOG

We would not be surprised if this battle leads to some form of another settlement which could result...
BONNIE HERZOG

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
WERNER HERZOG

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the th...
WERNER HERZOG

There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and pr...
ISAAC HERZOG

Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, ...
WERNER HERZOG

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars...
WERNER HERZOG

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that ra...
WERNER HERZOG

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the l...
CHAIM HERZOG

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon ...
RAYMOND HERZOG

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
WERNER HERZOG

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you w...
WHITEY HERZOG

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank yo...
WHITEY HERZOG

I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there...
WERNER HERZOG

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
WERNER HERZOG

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.
ISAAC HERZOG

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
WERNER HERZOG

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offend...
WERNER HERZOG

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.
WERNER HERZOG

Rabbis throughout the ages, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook onward, strictly prohibited goin...
ISAAC HERZOG

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
WHITEY HERZOG

The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human c...
HAL HERZOG

The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
WERNER HERZOG

I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision...
WERNER HERZOG

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them...
HAL HERZOG

Gush Etzion must be part of Israel for eternity.
ISAAC HERZOG

Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, can...
WERNER HERZOG

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
WERNER HERZOG

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
WHITEY HERZOG

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm...
WERNER HERZOG

I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers....
WERNER HERZOG

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the s...
WERNER HERZOG

Strangely enough, I've always believed that my stories were mainstream stories; the films are narrat...
WERNER HERZOG

I can tell those apart who can milk a cow, I mean with their bare hands. Sometimes people can tell b...
WERNER HERZOG

Erik Nelson [Herzog's producer] understood that I would see something in this, that something about ...
WERNER HERZOG

I just hope it's a small one. I only travel light. It's got to fit in my hand-held luggage.
WERNER HERZOG

I love my movies as they are. I let them develop their own lives.
WERNER HERZOG

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If y...
WERNER HERZOG

Many of my films have not been easy work,
WERNER HERZOG

Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not...
WERNER HERZOG

I'm old-fashioned; I'm a man of celluloid. I think it still has a depth and a precision that you do ...
WERNER HERZOG

Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unex...
WERNER HERZOG

We had some ranting about the meaning of nature, ... And Jewel is more defending Treadwell's positio...
WERNER HERZOG

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm goo...
WERNER HERZOG

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
WERNER HERZOG

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
WHITEY HERZOG

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
WHITEY HERZOG

Our trade contacts indicate Reynolds American has already developed a product and will enter the mar...
BONNIE HERZOG

I have never left my culture. It doesn't matter whether I film with Australian aborigines or in Anta...
WERNER HERZOG

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
WERNER HERZOG

I have my doubts about his attitude toward wild nature and that he did anything to help the bears, ....
WERNER HERZOG

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
WHITEY HERZOG

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.
WHITEY HERZOG

ecstatic truth. I've always tried to strive for a much deeper truth in the images, in cinema, in sto...
WERNER HERZOG

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. A...
WHITEY HERZOG

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next y...
WHITEY HERZOG

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
WERNER HERZOG

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
WERNER HERZOG

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the...
ARTHUR HERZOG

But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
ARTHUR HERZOG

I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze,...
ISAAC HERZOG

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely...
WERNER HERZOG

We have to do this because we have no idea what the future foretells. He hasn't been able to articul...
DOUG HERZOG

We have repeatedly tried to get Dave to figure out what he'd like to do with this stuff and it hasn'...
DOUG HERZOG

The audience has been telling us for a long time that they want to see more, so we thought we'd try ...
DOUG HERZOG

When . . . little, tiny Comedy Central is on the cover of Newsweek magazine -- who's battling Time m...
DOUG HERZOG

It's a sensitive issue and we'll be keeping our eye on it, no question about it.
DOUG HERZOG

We don't want to be strictly a teen network. We don't think there's a good business for us in that,
DOUG HERZOG

It's always nice to see fans passionate and getting behind shows. But at the same time, these are ch...
DOUG HERZOG

At the very least, we're hoping to stretch the audience 'The Daily Show' attracts which is a very...
DOUG HERZOG

I was at Comedy Central when we launched the first season of South Park and I am thrilled to see the...
DOUG HERZOG

With all due respect to Jay and Dave and everybody out there, they're doing very similar kinds of sh...
DOUG HERZOG

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kil...
WERNER HERZOG

Comrades, we are going to try to cheer you up, and our sense of humor will help us in this endeavor,...
RUDOLPH HERZOG

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If y...
WERNER HERZOG

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
WERNER HERZOG

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of schol...
WERNER HERZOG

Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our ...
MAURICE HERZOG

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
WERNER HERZOG

The need for environmental sanctions stems from the growth in building and development and the conse...
ISAAC HERZOG

In Israel there are numerous building and expansion projects in areas with landscapes and habitats w...
ISAAC HERZOG

We need to think of future generations, ... The need for 'green construction' in Israel is a serious...
ISAAC HERZOG

I look at Likud and I see a party in suicide,
ISAAC HERZOG

The education portfolio, after defense, is the portfolio with the biggest budget. It affects every f...
ISAAC HERZOG

Undoubtedly it's historic ... The feeling that the Vatican itself is leading the way to all of the b...
ISAAC HERZOG

The adrenaline is flowing and he's totally focused in convincing Israeli public opinion of his just ...
ISAAC HERZOG

We needed to make a dramatic change in the way we approach welfare housing, ... There has been an in...
ISAAC HERZOG

Now they are not focused only on Israel, but also on rebuilding South Africa, closing the gaps after...
ISAAC HERZOG

As advertising continues to evolve, so too must the strategies that companies use to reach their tar...
JEFFREY HERZOG

The mountains were there and so was I.
MAURICE HERZOG

I never argued against the position of the Chief Rabbinate on holy sites, including the Western Wall...
ISAAC HERZOG

I grew up in a house where service to the country was a way of life, not a means of reaching a perso...
ISAAC HERZOG

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ...
SAUL BELLOW, HERZOG

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
JACQUES CARTIER

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would b...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
JACQUES BARZUN

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have...
MARTIN JACQUES

In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t...
MARTIN JACQUES

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is ...
JACQUES BARZUN

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool...
JACQUES PREVERT

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of jo...
JACQUES CHIRAC

When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we ha...
JACQUES PARIZEAU

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qua...
JACQUES MARITAIN

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
JACQUES CHIRAC

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
JACQUES PREVERT

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was ...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as somethi...
MARTIN JACQUES

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had ...
MARTIN JACQUES

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their q...
JACQUES MARITAIN

Experience is the cane of the blind.
JACQUES ROUMAIN

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ...
BRIAN JACQUES

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning t...
JACQUES DERRIDA

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
JACQUES DERRIDA

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige ot...
JACQUES MARITAIN

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable...
JACQUES MARITAIN

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...
JACQUES PREVERT

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
JACQUES MARITAIN

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You ma...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
JACQUES MARITAIN

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to unde...
JACQUES ATTALI

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a ...
JACQUES BARZUN

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
JACQUES BARZUN

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

We see societies establishing themselves, nations forming themselves, which in turn dominate over ot...
JACQUES TURGOT

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen an...
JACQUES ATTALI

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people bo...
JACQUES PLANTE

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realiti...
JACQUES BARZUN

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
JACQUES BARZUN

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN

God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.
JACQUES RIGAUT

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends
JACQUES DELILLE

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps...
JACQUES BARZUN

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realit...
JACQUES BARZUN

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
JACQUES DELILLE

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
JACQUES DEVAL

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
JEPH JACQUES

Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.
JACQUES BARZUN

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already mode...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
JACQUES BARZUN

Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have be...
MARTIN JACQUES

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprisi...
MARTIN JACQUES

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an Amer...
MARTIN JACQUES

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my o...
JACQUES VERGES

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a...
JACQUES DERRIDA

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It...
MARTIN JACQUES

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
JACQUES DERRIDA

It is good for society to have this introspection.
JACQUES VERGES

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social...
JACQUES ELLUL

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
JACQUES LACAN

The people surround the pitch, under the sky or under the floodlights and that it's it. It's really like an instrument of perception. You cannot only design a building to make it beautiful. It has to really work well with the huge crowd that is using it.

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The people surround the pitch, under the sky or under the floodlights and that it's it. It's really like an instrument of perception. You cannot only design a building to make it beautiful. It has to really work well with the huge crowd that is using it.

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