Vienna Quotes
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Vienna Quotes & Sayings
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I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed
— Blixa Bargeld
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
— Adolf Loos
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
— Karl Kraus
Gentlemen. If you're going to take Vienna, take it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.
— Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
— Hedy Lamarr
The Vienna Circle was empiricist and phenomenalist, Popper was a critical rationalist.
— Karl R. Popper
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
— Karl Von Frisch
My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
— Fran Lebowitz
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
— Frederic Chopin
Sometimes I have a terrible suspicion that the whole tragedy, from first to last, has no meaning.
— Sarah Gainham
I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.
— Thomas G. Stemberg
The music gushed from the loudspeaker in a swirl of shadowed melody. Since Vienna died, all waltzes are shadowed. (I'll be waiting)
— Raymond Chandler
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
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
Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
— Storm Jameson
He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!
— Gorilla Monsoon
But you must remember that they are Viennese and nobody is good enough for the Viennese.
— Daisy Goodwin
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
— Arthur Schnitzler
Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty, Sarah commented.
— Magnus Flyte
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
— Karl Kraus
This, the dream and the dreamer, wandering in the desert from Hopkinsville to Vienna in love with a streetwalker named Music. ...
— Langston Hughes
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
— Karl Von Frisch
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
Well wtith a statue hermann cannot possibly fight
— Eva Ibbotson
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.
— Sebastian Stan
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[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.
— Maria Callas
The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.
— Charles Emmerson
I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
— Peter Morgan
As from the 1490s, the double-headed eagle began to appear as the symbol of state in Moscow as in Vienna, as indeed in Constantinople.
— Norman Davies
The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.
— Douglas Coupland
But since those days in Vienna I had been aware that Austria was lost, not yet suspecting, to be sure, how much I had lost thereby.
— Stefan Zweig
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize ... Vienna waits for you.
— Billy Joel
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
— Bernard Arnault
When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?
— Arthur Schnitzler
In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.
— Donald Hall
I spent a little more than five months in Vienna. I danced. I went ice skating and skiing. For strenuous exercise, I argued with an Englishman.
— J.D. Salinger
From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.
— George Burns
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[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake." Ragtime
— E.L. Doctorow
Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
— Niki Lauda
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
— Erich Von Stroheim
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
— Karl Von Frisch
