Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane von Furstenberg

I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

Dexter Gordon

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

Anna Lindh

major step forward toward the integration (of Macedonia) into the European Union.

The products shipped in Europe are from a plant in Europe.

The outlook for equities in Europe remains pretty reasonable over the next 12 months.

Brian Eno

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

Boris Yeltsin

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account

Brad Feld

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

Jan Peter Balkenende

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

Jan Peter Balkenende

The necessity for co-operation between Europe and the United States is bigger than ever. Only by close transatlantic co-operation can we face the world's challenges.

There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.

When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.

Eddi Reader

'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

Jenny Lewis

When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.

Chris Cuomo

You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.

Charles Olson

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

Deana Carter

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Daniel Hannan

Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

Daniel Hannan

The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe

She and another girl just went all over Europe every weekend.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

Hu Jintao

We hope to see European Union plays a more important role on issues pertaining to Europe and the world as a whole,

We hope after Turkey to go to other countries. Maybe it is the first step to Europe and the West.

Jean Monnet

Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Eliot Spitzer

The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

Edward Heath

Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don't know whether he'd have done it any better or quicker had he been married.

Dominique de Villepin

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.