Berlin famous quotes

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
-- Agnes Obel

#Ideas #People #Berlin

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again
-- Alan Ladd

#Roles #Berlin #Beast

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.
-- Alexandra Lara

#Careers #Matter #Berlin

I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#Government #Decision #Berlin

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
-- Arthur Bryant

#Real #Years #Berlin

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.
-- Bruce Sterling

#D Day #Literature #Berlin

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Musician #Berlin #September

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.
-- Claudia Schiffer

#Germany #Berlin

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.
-- Cole Porter

#Song #Writing #Berlin

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city
-- Daniel Libeskind

#Cities #Interesting #Berlin

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
-- Daniel Libeskind

#Vision #Berlin #Should

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future
-- Daniel Libeskind

#Europe #Void #Berlin

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!
-- Edmund Stoiber

#Vanity #Political #Berlin

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Museums #Berlin #Eastern

It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.
-- Enoch Powell

#Kings #Choices #Berlin

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.
-- Erik Spiekermann

#Design #Way #Berlin

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
-- Ferdinand Lassalle

#Uprising #Vexation #Berlin

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
-- Graham Coxon

#Germany #Munich #Berlin

Berlin stimulates like arsenic.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Arsenic #Berlin

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.
-- Hermann Goring

#Cinema #Berlin #Hundred

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.
-- Ian Buruma

#Art #Fiction #Berlin

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
-- Jenny Eclair

#Years #Berlin #England

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
-- Jerome Kern

#Berlin

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.
-- Jim Sanborn

#Interesting #Berlin #Clock

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

#Germany #Berlin

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.
-- John Schlesinger

#Looks #Festivals #Berlin

This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Animal #Aquariums #Berlin

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.
-- Kathy Acker

#Berlin #Sailor #Bigs

The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.
-- Ken Adam

#Foundation #Max #Berlin

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
-- Leonard Cohen

#Manhattan #Berlin #Firsts

Berlin is my favourite city.
-- Logan Lerman

#Cities #Berlin #Favourite

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.
-- Lucy Walker

#Wall #Berlin #Remember

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
-- Mark Twain

#Believe #Earth #Berlin

I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.
-- Marton Csokas

#Stars #Berlin #Months

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
-- Marvin Hamlisch

#Writing #Broadway #Berlin

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
-- Mel Brooks

#Laughing #Berlin #Should

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!
-- Michelle Rodriguez

#Men #Berlin #Architecture

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.
-- Nana Mouskouri

#Wall #Berlin #Wonderful

The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.
-- Niki Lauda

#Air #Alliances #Berlin

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
-- Nikita Khrushchev

#War #Want #Berlin

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.
-- Nina Hagen

#Berlin #East #Band

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
-- Olafur Eliasson

#Past #Cities #Berlin

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
-- Olafur Eliasson

#Berlin #Firsts #Germany

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, Victory, and walked off the field.
-- Paul Keating

#Wall #Victory #Berlin

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.
-- Rufus Wainwright

#Cutting #People #Berlin

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.
-- Russell Baker

#Years #May #Berlin

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.
-- Silvan Shalom

#Children #Parent #Berlin

I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.
-- Sloane Crosley

#Berlin #Want #Techno

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
-- Viktor E. Frankl

#Berlin #Lectures #Ministry

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
-- Vladimir Kramnik

#Berlin #Able #Fortresses

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.
-- Walid Jumblatt

#Wall #People #Berlin

I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
-- Cate Shortland

#Husband #Grandma #Berlin

I'm quite sure it happened in Berlin too when Eva [Braun] stayed there later on. I wouldn't know about that because I was scarcely ever there myself. I don't want to suggest she was crying all the time, but then they had their arguments, she was very downcast until she had cried it through. It happened on occasion.
-- Gretl Braun

#Want #Berlin #Cry

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.
-- Irakli Okruashvili

#Different #Georgia #Berlin

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.
-- McGeorge Bundy

#Laos #Vietnam #Berlin

I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent and it was at the Mark Taper Forum. I was playing a homosexual in 1930 to 1934 Berlin who is eventually put into a concentration camp for the second half of the play. I had lost about 38 pounds for that.
-- Patrick Heusinger

#Play #Berlin #Pounds

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.
-- Arnon Goldfinger

#Judging #Grandfather #Berlin

Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.
-- Daniel Kehlmann

#Character #Mouths #Berlin

The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.
-- Darryl Pinckney

#People #Berlin #Hardest

In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.
-- Darryl Pinckney

#Cities #Chicago #Berlin

[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!
-- Elisabeth of Wied

#Country #Powerful #Berlin

It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.
-- Sophie Tucker

#Berlin #Broadcasting #Company