Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

'Vert' is, like, straight to the top, like a vertical leap.

— Lil Uzi Vert

[We were very lucky that Sean [ Ellis ] researched the film [Anthropoid ] for many years.] We sort of piggybacked on his knowledge,…

— Cillian Murphy

I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples,…

— Vaclav Klaus

“The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city…

— Laini Taylor

Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played…

— Edie McClurg

I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven…

— Hans Frank

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to…

— Philip Kaufman

“The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds; the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain. The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves, Bursting,…

— Elizabeth Jane Weston

The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well:…

— Anonymous

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted…

— Milan Kundera

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you…' I…

— Josef Koudelka

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things…

— Christopher Hitchens

When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens…

— Christopher Hitchens

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing…

— Philip Roth

Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for…

— Bohumil Hrabal