Vienna Quotes

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Terry Eagleton
Great Will Be True Past Once Way Feature Never True Performed Always Erase Irish Human Human Actions Famine Which Vienna Actions Peculiar Treaty
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. Adolf Loos
Speak Wish Other Herself Our City None Dear Than Which Vienna Here
I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost complete cycle of orchestral works by Richard Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic. Andre Previn
Made Philharmonic Symphonies Extraordinarily Complete Williams Recorded Remain Almost Proud Orchestral Richard Vienna Cycle Works
Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great things at Tanglewood. He was the best example of what a conductor should be. Andris Nelsons
Best Great Great Things Example Everyone Everywhere Admired London Boston He Him Course Conductor Did Loved Vienna Should Many Things
My small experience on 'Dancing with the Stars' allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different. Apolo Ohno
Me Experience Stars Dancing Dancing With The Stars See Slowly Something Small Allowed Waltz Different Much Vienna Appreciate
In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were determined to raise my two sisters and me according to Afghan traditions. Azita Ghanizada
Home Family Me Parents Virginia Invaded Russians Determined Were Traditions According Sisters Afghan Afghanistan Far Toddler Vienna Whole Raise Two
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. Bernard Arnault
Time Good Philharmonic Could Because Without Conductor From Time To Time Vienna Play
Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. Charlie Munger
Buy Great Family You People Think Sew Civilized Invest Great Thing Gold Vienna Your Productive Businesses Garments Thing Jewish
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any. David Attenborough
Music Good Day Me You World Suits Somewhere Think Say Good Music London Some Paris Week Greatest Climate Go Hear Any Going Vienna Serious
I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun. Douglas Carter Beane
Love Myself World Point Point Of View Throwing Period Lot Loved Place Turn Century Vienna View Fun
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I. Eric Kandel
War World November Defeat Born Following Empire Fell Years After Apart Vienna Eleven World War World War I
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before. Eric Kandel
Together Science Age Culture Mind Before Way Complex Insight Brought More Had Emphasized New Existed Than New Way Human Modernism Create Vienna View Human Mind Ever
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. Erich von Stroheim
Man Woman Speak Past Must He Tense Dead Loved In The Past Vienna Speaks Who
What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations. Fritz Kreisler
Me Liberty Police Strict Increased Relaxation Everywhere Kind Spite Particularly Mob Impressed Greatly Any Order Vienna Regulations
In my life, my parents wanted me to be a musician, I was supposed to go to Vienna to study piano. But this train wanted to go in another direction. Golshifteh Farahani
Life Me My Life Parents Musician Direction Piano Study Supposed Another Go Train Wanted Vienna
My friend created an iPhone app that locates Vienna Beef products across the country. Personally, I came hardwired with an internal GPS that instinctively points me toward coffee shops, cupcake stores and the perfect Chicago-style dog, so I find this technology redundant. Jen Lancaster
Me Technology Dog Coffee Country Find My Friend Perfect Points Toward Instinctively Redundant Came Beef iPhone Friend Shops Stores Personally Created Vienna Across App Products Internal Coffee Shops Hardwired
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. Karl von Frisch
First Philosophy Exams Faculty Studied After Vienna Switched Munich Zoology
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. Karl von Frisch
Doctorate Vienna Received University
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. Karl von Frisch
School Medicine Later Faculty Studied Grammar Grammar School Vienna University
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too. Leon Askin
Art Great Me Science Great Deal Parents Too Honors Honour Would City Cross Various Most Also Deal Titles Mean Vienna Reason Received
Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an overnight, and being asked to present my travel documents and realizing I forgot them at the hotel, they kicked me off the train and sent me back! Megalyn Echikunwoke
Me Travel Nice Back Once France Kicked Way Taking Hotel Documents Prague Accidentally Overnight Arriving Passport Off Left Train Forgot Being After Sent Them Asked Realizing Vienna Present
At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin. Niccolo Paganini
Seen Devil Guiding Proof Variations Directing Had He Performance Arm Bow Audience Surprising While Elbow Vienna Resemblance Origin Publicly Playing
Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe. Niki Lauda
Eastern Eastern Europe Vienna Europe Gate
Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them. Pierre Boulez
Me Knowledge Experience Try Before Philharmonic Members Some Never Well Learn Knows Repertoire Very Done Orchestra Which Interesting Them Confronted Vienna Convinced
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe. Rose George
Life Home Great Sewer Cities Willingly Bored London Some Above Network Paris Brussels Arguably Splendid Tourists Tours Most Prague Curious Vienna Ground Descend Europe Expose Below Museums
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. Russell Baker
Life Dreams Women Dangerous Brilliant Made Young Trench Correspondent Hopelessly Dreamed Glamorous Glamorous Life Stuff Like Foreign Narrowly Escaping Reporters Newspaper Vienna Languages Speaking Coat Usual Dozen Incompetent
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