Famous Quotes & Sayings

John le Carre

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

Karl Kraus

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

Otto Rehhagel

There are no right or wrong, or fair results. There's just the final score.

Oswald Spengler

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

Otto von Bismarck

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

Paul Crouch

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

Martin Heidegger

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Method Man

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

Pierre Laval

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Mark Twain

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

Mark Twain

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

Mark Twain

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Mark Twain

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Paul Celan

Death is a master from Germany.

For the German left, it's an unbearable truth.

Edmund Husserl

All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.

Peter Drucker

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

Ted Shackelford

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

Daniel Breaker

I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

The firmer Belgian and Italian producer sentiment surveys released yesterday support the view of a strong growth reading on the Germany IFO survey out today.

James F. Byrnes

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

Helmut Kohl

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

Jerry Saltz

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Jorge Valdano

The German sides worry us because they are German.

The Germans have been winning races for a long, long time. They're on a whole other level. I'm hoping one day our program will get there.

The German IFO survey took all the wind out of any hope for successful intervention. In order to intervene, they need to have some improving fundamentals.

The German government and the American administration had different opinions about how Saddam Hussein's regime should be handled,

Emo Philips

Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia...

George Foreman

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.

Louis Pasteur

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

Peter Lindbergh

My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.