Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Strauss

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

Leo Strauss

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Boris Becker

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Ernst Lubitsch

I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.

Edmund Husserl

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Adolf Hitler

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

Tracy Morgan

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

Wang Leehom

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

Tom Wlaschiha

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

W. G. Sebald

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

Walther Bothe

This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

Kim Cattrall

I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.

Mike Nichols

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.

Gary Wright

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.

Uta Hagen

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

Joschka Fischer

The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.

Flula Borg

Dirk is like the German Moses, invincible and inspiring. That is why 'His Name Is Dirk' must be the Official Fan Song for Dirk Nowitzki.

Claudia Schiffer

The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.

Serge Schmemann

My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We talked about these things at the dinner table, at their schools, with their friends.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Richard Strauss

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Richard Strauss

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

Heinrich Boll

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.

It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope,

Paul Mooney

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

Peter Morgan

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.