Quotes About The City Of Vienna

#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 like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.

Joss Whedon

#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. In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Chuck Norris

#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. 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

#11. The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

Giorgio Agamben

#12. Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?

Graham Swift

#13. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare