Quotes About Danube

#1. I am married,' she shouted, 'to the cupboard under the sink.' A remark made more mysterious to Mrs Barnes by the sound of a passing ice-cream van playing the opening bars of the 'Blue Danube'.

Alan Bennett

#2. If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play "The Blue Danube Waltz," get the hell out. Don't think. Run.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. South of the Danube, by offering a spoonful of sherbet

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#4. Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz.

Andre Rieu

#5. Well, then. Hungary borders, in the south, on the Danube and Serbia ... and the Rumanian ... Dalmatian ... and Serbia ... and the capital of Serbia.., and the Serbia of capital ...

Frigyes Karinthy

#6. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.

Bram Stoker

#7. Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

Howard Dietz

#8. on the west, the Atlantic Ocean; the Rhine and Danube on the north; the Euphrates on the east; and towards the south, the sandy deserts of Arabia and Africa. ^4

Edward Gibbon

#9. I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#10. I made a resolution I would throw myself into the Danube if I didn't ask you to make love with me today.

Stephen Vizinczey

#11. Do you recall that night in June
Upon the Danube River;
We listened to the landler-tune,
We watched the moonbeams quiver.

Charles Hamilton Aide

#12. What I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. She walks along the pavement, lost in thoughts about the Internet, so deeply immersed that before she knows it she's at her front door, and guess what? She completely forgot to buy some chocolate on the war home.

Jane Green

#14. What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground - and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.

Frank Herbert

#15. Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

William Ellery Channing

#16. All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

Samuel Johnson

#17. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#18. Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Criss Jami

#19. Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

Mira Grant

#20. The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#21. The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

Timothy Keller

#22. I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

Dan Bejar

#23. You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#24. I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

Tony Goldwyn

#25. [Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

N. T. Wright

#26. You can't know what it is like for us now
you will always be one step behind.
Be thankful for that.
You can't know what it was like for us then
you will always be one step ahead.
Be thankful for that, too.

David Levithan

#27. Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

Ville Valo