Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Jennings

When you think about the events that we've been through, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to, I guess you'd say, 9/11 being the culmination at the end of that, of that scope, what extraordinary changes there have been.

Cecilia Bartoli

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

Alan Ladd

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

Richard Smith

With these two kids, we did not wait until the very last minute, when they were going over the edge. We pulled that string first and got the Berlin Heart here.

Kurt Braunohler

'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created 'Bunk.'

Let's get real. It won't happen in a nation that has the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. We won't build the Berlin Wall or the Israeli fence. There will be changes, though.

Luke Harding

Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (Speech near the Berlin Wall, 1987)

Mr Zimmer is small-minded, ... Berlin is open - Mr Zimmer has to learn that ... And so long as nothing forbidden is happening, I expect tolerance.

Great soccer is inspiring, on the street and in the stadium, and Nike is in Berlin today to celebrate brilliant football. Nike soccer is about the joy of playing. Our products, our players and our global brand leadership reflect that.

Sam Riley

I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

Gary Ross

The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.

Erik Larson

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

Don DeLillo

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

Debbie Reynolds

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

Lawrence Summers

He has provided very important and valuable leadership on a range of issues from the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s to the challenge of the transition economies following the fall of the Berlin Wall to the emerging market challenges of recent years.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.

Matthias Platzeck

The grand coalition in Berlin has certainly become more stable.

Raf Simons

Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.

Open skies will come, just as the Berlin Wall finally came down. It's an anachronism to have these restrictions between two free-trading states.

Tom Wopat

Irving Berlin just knows how to touch ya. It's a wonderful thing to discover this about music, even though I've loved music all my life.

I was born in Berlin on March 15, 1830, the second son of the royal university professor K. W. L. Heyse and his wife Julie, nee Saaling, who came from a Jewish family.

We were inspired by cabaret culture in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s.

Other than Disneyland, it was my first exposure to an imaginative design like that. I got the idea for the Berlin sector from the black-and-white striped guardhouse.

Olafur Eliasson

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

After 20 years of being the enemy, but respecting the enemy, it will be fun. The first time I walked into Channel 9 it was like after the Berlin wall fell.

Adam Rickitt

Probably the fall of the Berlin Wall. As a child it was the first time I really remembering seeing the power of and desire for democracy.

Jerome Kern

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Mark Williams

Best Western extends a warm welcome to the Berlin Inn. We are excited to offer another quality lodging option in New Jersey.

Alex Ebert

Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.

Stephen Baldwin

Berlin played a great game on defense and we just couldn't get it done.

I visit Berlin occasionally to visit family, and the economic problems are quickly evident even to the casual visitor.

Michelle Landry

This was pretty exciting to me to get into the top-eight. I knew I needed to put up a strong performance. I'm definitely in shape and I wanted to race well. When I got to Berlin I made a decision I was going to get up there and perform.