German Quotes · Page 10

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

— Patrick White

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

— Willie Rushton

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

— Werner Herzog

The small teams are playing well. That's visible, and it has had an impact on German football.

— Bastian Schweinsteiger

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

— George Soros

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that…

— Marisol Nichols

The Spanish and German leagues are of a very high standard. Along with the Premier League, they are probably the best.

— Toni Kroos

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh…

— David Sedaris

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do…

— Peter Hermann

There will certainly be times when Merkel and I will have opposing viewpoints. Just the fact that government work adheres to a…

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked…

— Barack Obama

It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an…

— Martin Amis

What I really value in Angela Merkel is that she has never tried to tap the brakes on my élan, my enthusiasm.…

— Emmanuel Macron

“Weißt du, was das Geheimnis ist?", raunte der Zwerg an SEINER Seite. "Es ist die Kraft positiver Gedanken. Du musst einfach an…

— Bernhard Hennen

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at…

— Peter Morgan

“I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without…

— Bram Stoker

“This is the best day of my life…I will go down in history as the greatest German ever.”

— Volker Ullrich

I always say a couple of words to the German players in the changing room and they're always laughing at me!

— Emile Smith Rowe

I have two dogs, a springer spaniel and a German shepherd. One of them's name is Nolan Arenado.

— Buster Posey

Playing in the German Bundesliga gave me the platform to excel in my football career.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency.

— Barack Obama

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.

— Gary Wright

“Die Wege in die Andere Welt sind so zahlreich und verschlungen wie die Flüsse und Bäche, die dem Meer entgegenstreben.”

— Bernhard Hennen

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to…

— Mark Twain

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

— Navid Negahban

Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans…

— Hasso Plattner

Admire? No, I have never said that. I still appreciate Angela Merkel as a very professional and open person.

— Vladimir Putin

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

— Edward Sapir

I hope that Angela Merkel can become the chancellor of the rebuilding of Europe, in close cooperation with the role that I…

— Emmanuel Macron

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

— Juan Manuel Fangio

“Like the small flame of a match to a cigarette, Rudolf’s fury lit the crumpled edge of his German soul.”

— Geraldine Birch

“Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

— John le Carre

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had…

— Dixie Dean

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has…

— Maurice Druon

In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.

— Michael Haneke

I lived in L.A. for seven years, and if you're a German actor, they always throw the Nazi parts at you.

— Til Schweiger

Pep Guardiola had some great clashes with Klopp in German football. They know each other well.

— Roberto Firmino

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

— Suzanne Fields