Vienna Quotes

• Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Waiting, Realizing

  Song: Vienna, Album: 12 Gardens Live

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• The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

  Karl Kraus

  Cities, Culture, Asphalt

  Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus (2013). “The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus”, p.13, Macmillan

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• When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Politics

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• Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

  Frederic Chopin

  Please Me, Cities, Handsome

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• Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

  Storm Jameson

  Home, Europe, Cities

  Storm Jameson (1933). “Women against men”

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• If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

  Erich von Stroheim

  Past, Men, Speak

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• And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

  Leonard Cohen

  Music, Yield, Rivers

  Song: Take This Waltz, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ifs

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Europe, Eastern, Gates

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.

  Eric Kandel

  Art, Views, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna? They must have known on some level that that is where they would flourish. It's what biologists call "selective migration."

  Eric Weiner

  Needs, Levels, Migration

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Order, Police, Relaxation

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.12, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

  Karl Kraus

  Berlin, Serious, Hopeless

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• The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

  Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

  Government, Doe, Congress

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• I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.

  John Irving

  Zoos, Kids, Littles

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• And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

  Leonard Cohen

  Soul, Scrapbooking, Catchy

  Leonard Cohen, “Take This Waltz”

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• Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening to find what tone it called forth in the person I was talking to. It was how I tested people. If there was no response, this was not the kind of person I liked. Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the most beautiful thing in my life. I was poor, but I was not alone, because I had a friend.

  Sándor Márai

  Beautiful, Talking, Cities

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• If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Artist, Tables

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Children, Father, Fire

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• My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dream, Writing, Library

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• For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Dream, Years, Long

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• I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

  Walter Kohn

  War, Views, Years

  Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Son, Wife, Teach

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• I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

  Karl von Frisch

  University, Doctorates

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• After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

  Karl von Frisch

  Philosophy, Munich, Firsts

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