Vienna Quotes

66 quotes by 58 authors

I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father… — James K. Galbraith
THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that… — Emilie Schindler
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. — Karl von Frisch
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. — Karl von Frisch
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new translation, Anthea Bell… — Ronald Harwood
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. — Adolf Loos
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy,… — Alfred Schnittke
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study...… — Steven Pressfield
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… — Webster Tarpley
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and… — Frederic Chopin
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna… — Harry Mathews
In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the… — Stefan Zweig
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. — Erica Jong
I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to. — Thomas G. Stemberg
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is… — Erich von Stroheim
From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train. — George Burns
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. — Bernard Arnault
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… — Leon Askin
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives… — Mohamed ElBaradei
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Who Wrote These Vienna Quotes

58 authors contributed a total of 66 Vienna Quotes, led by these top contributors: