Berliners Quotes

#1. The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.

J. Anthony Lukas

#2. People sometimes complain that Berliners just sit around all day in cafes, smoking and talking about art. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

Joe Jackson

#3. If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.

Herbert Von Karajan

#4. Berliners came to practice what became known as "the German glance" - der deutsche Blick - a quick look in all directions when encountering a friend or acquaintance on the street.

Erik Larson

#5. It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

Charles Hazlewood

#6. Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there - to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.

John Welwood

#7. Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

Moses

#8. What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.

Bryan Fuller

#9. The fire in you burns as fiercely as it did when I first met you.

Marie Lu

#10. We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#11. There is only one name on the door at Walt Disney Imagineering.

Marty Sklar

#12. There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.

Bethany McLean

#14. Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.

Jeffrey Friedland

#15. When I first came back from Iraq, I of course found myself thinking a lot about it. Not just my experiences, but those of people I talked to, friends, and colleagues.

Phil Klay