Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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.

Mike Nichols

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

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.

Menachem Begin

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

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,

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.

Paul Mooney

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

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.

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.

Daniel Bruhl

We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

E. B. White

He was so funny. He was our unofficial tour guide. I was surprised how much he knew (about Germany and France).

Mother Teresa

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Mother Teresa

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

I was watching John, I thought he was the strongest. The Gerolsteiner rider... I think he was playing! I just raced with him in Germany where he had the King of the Mountains for a day or two. I know it was touch-and-go and I know his teammate was working hard. We had been out there a long time.

I want to win a confirmation of my (financial) reform policies that can lead Germany to new strength.

I will name no country, but Germany is ready to move on the budget.

It is a problem between the German interior ministry on the one side and the other people on the other.

People in Germany are hungry for real music, something that speaks to the heart.

Jacques Rogge

It is something that we all wish for; to see a joint Korean team participating at the Games, like the situation we had with the united German team several years ago.

I don't think nuclear war will get us, but germs will.

The... allegations are wrong in all their details. The (Federal Intelligence Service) BND, and with it the German government, were unaware of such a plan until now.

Yevgeny Primakov

The American representatives on these inspection operations should not be ousted, but probably they should recruit more international personnel -- from France, Germany and even Russian experts,