City Of Vienna Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.

Eric Kandel

#4. I thought you'd say it might be a trap.'
'It might be trap,' he said.
'It doesn't feel like a trap.'
'Well it wouldn't, would it? Not if it was a good trap.

Philip Reeve

#5. My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.

Eric Kandel

#6. Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.

Jack Germond

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

Frederic Chopin

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

Adolf Loos

#9. My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

Eric Kandel

#10. There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

Ludwig Von Mises

#11. There's no way anyone in the world is having more fun than I am. I truly believe that.

Kid Rock

#12. When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.

Anya Seton

#14. Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.

Margaret Wertheim

#15. 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.

Eric Weiner

#16. I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

Brian Posehn