Quotes About Frankfurt

#1. Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives.

Geoff Hoon

#2. I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

Brigitte Nielsen

#3. Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

Guillermo Del Toro

#4. Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Wole Soyinka

#5. Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual clarity, and perceived the not-so-revolutionary self-importance in the epigones of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas.

Thomas Metzinger

#6. When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

Nigel Farage

#7. Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris's then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian W

Marcel Proust

#8. If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

Nicolas Berggruen

#9. You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

W.G. Sebald

#10. The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.

Bill Peterson

#11. If we go to Frankfurt together it won't be long, I'm sure, before I love you. I'm not like you; it takes me longer than two days to fall in love with someone. If you're patient, if you don't break my heart with your Turkish jealousies, I'll love you deeply.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.

Rory Bremner

#13. The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You're flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.

Tucker Elliot

#14. Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable members of other convening professions, prefer to stay in their hotels and fuck one another

Julian Barnes

#15. It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.

Bill Dedman

#16. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]

John F. Kennedy

#17. A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Susan Sontag

#18. The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is well-integrated into an overall scheme for a group of small museums.

Martin Filler

#19. Civilizations ... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#20. Political correctness is a war on noticing.

Steve Sailer

#21. To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know - and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of - a great many truths.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#22. Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#23. As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

Harry Frankfurt

#24. One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#25. Is truth something that in fact we do - and should - especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of bullshit?

Harry G. Frankfurt

#26. It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Harry Frankfurt

#27. Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#28. Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

Harry Frankfurt

#29. I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

Harry Frankfurt

#30. Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.

Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer

#31. I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Harry Frankfurt

#32. It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#33. However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#34. After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.

Harry G. Frankfurt