Viennese Quotes

#1. Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

Bill Maher

#2. My small experience on 'Dancing with the Stars' allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different.

Apolo Ohno

#3. and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture.

Stefan Zweig

#4. copies were passed to the cryptanalysts, who sat in little kiosks, ready to tease out the meanings of the messages. As well as supplying the emperors of Austria with invaluable intelligence, the Viennese Black Chamber sold the information it harvested to other powers in Europe. In 1774 an

Simon Singh

#5. When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book.

Craig Nelson

#6. I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

Peter Morgan

#7. Live and let live was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives, and it maintained itself throughout all classes.

Stefan Zweig

#8. The situation is desperate," runs an old Viennese saying, "but not serious.

Jan Swafford

#9. The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.

Eric Weiner

#10. The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School.

Webster Tarpley

#11. But you must remember that they are Viennese and nobody is good enough for the Viennese.

Daisy Goodwin

#12. The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#13. My tastes are Viennese.

Zubin Mehta

#14. 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

#15. Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

Ian Shoales

#16. The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

Jonathan Carroll

#17. You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

Henry Ward Beecher

#18. He had a point, but I wasn't sure it was much better than Elora's. She worked more of a con job, and Oren proposed outright theft.

Amanda Hocking

#19. The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.

William Lyon Phelps

#20. There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#21. You want me." She tried to keep the wonder out of her voice. Two minutes ago, she'd been asleep in his arms, and yet his body was ready to join with hers. "Always." He

Grace Burrowes

#22. Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Walt Whitman

#23. Culture is worth a little risk,

Norman Mailer

#24. I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.

Hoodie Allen

#25. Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

Linda Grant

#26. I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

Thomas Horn

#27. Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

John W. Gardner

#28. Edges are magic, too; there's a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if we ignore it or are unaware of it.

Ali Smith

#29. With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

Royal Robbins

#30. Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Peter O'Toole

#31. And in a terrible moment, though her body chose to fight the monster that was stalking her, her soul refused such a death and leap from her body to continue its flight.

Kate Danley