Berlin Quotes

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

Berlin is my favourite city.

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

Life punishes those who come too late.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

I traveled to Berlin promoting something a few years back, and Berlin is absolutely my favorite city I've ever been to. I want desperately to film something there.

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

Berlin's great secret is that he says exactly what he means; sometimes he hits a gigantic line both musically and lyrically -- almost Wagnerian in its strength.

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.

I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

If you want a model for what is possible, if you want to see how to build a peaceful and prosperous and dynamic society, then look at Berlin and look at Germany.

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.

In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter.

Berlin stimulates like arsenic.