I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
My small experience on 'Dancing with the Stars' allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War… — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The coffee shop played a big role in Vienna of 1900. Rents were sky high, housing was difficult to come by, your… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a… — Paul Haslinger Copy Share Image
I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well, even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
In America, even your menus have the gift of language… The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
“ Look at the snow, the woman was saying to the child. The snow absolves Vienna of its sins. The snow falls… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could… — Webster Tarpley Copy Share Image
If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would… — Alfred Schnittke Copy Share Image
When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a… — Otto Preminger Copy Share Image
“The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor… — Seymour Stein Copy Share Image
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
[Eva Braun] also stayed with [Adolf Hitler] at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, the Hotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg and a few… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work.… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna?… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
My parents came a long time ago to Vienna, met in Vienna. Of course they had to go through a lot also,… — David Alaba Copy Share Image
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various… — Leon Askin Copy Share Image
I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image