Prague Quote by Penelope Gilliatt Download Open image “Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.” — Penelope Gilliatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prague Steps Venice Vertical
I had travelled to a lot of cities in Europe before, but Prague was special. It held a mysterious attraction for me for during… — Arfi Lamba Copy Share Image
“Prague does not have its name for no reason - in truth, Prague is a threshold between the life on Earth and Heaven, a… — Gustav Meyrink Copy Share Image
“Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and the imagination,… — Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone,… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12. — Anwar Robinson Copy Share Image
You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I like Prague, it's strange. All the houses you see look like Disney sets, with their bright colours. — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
[We were very lucky that Sean [ Ellis ] researched the film [Anthropoid ] for many years.] We sort of piggybacked on his knowledge,… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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