Vienna Quotes

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The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

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.

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.

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.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.

You might be a redneck if your wife keeps a can of Vienna sausage in her purse.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.