Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joschka Fischer

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Gottfried Leibniz

And as every state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, so that the present state of it is big with the future.

Hjalmar Schacht

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time

Hjalmar Schacht

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

Ted Shackelford

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

Heidi Klum

I certainly like working in Germany.

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.

Joel Silver

It's financially advantageous to make a picture in Berlin, Germany. They have a very effective rebate system.

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.

I mean a German person would never do it like that, it would be very serious, you know, systematic, but a Spanish person it takes another kind of way.

There's the old German saying, 'Wash my fur, but don't get me wet,' ... Well, guess what: When you wash somebody down, he gets wet.

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.

Paul Celan

Death is a master from Germany.

Method Man

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

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.

Martin Heidegger

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

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,

William Joyce

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

William Joyce

Germany calling! Germany Calling!