Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coco Austin

After watching 'Peepshow,' people always say to me that it was more than what they expected. It is so much more than a musical. It has a lot of energy and is fast-paced. You are entertained the whole time watching it. One guy from Germany watched 'Peepshow' every single day for the whole week he was in Vegas.

That is wrong. Germany was not on the side of those waging war. We did not supply the Americans with any target data.

Matthew Stewart

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

Karlheinz Stockhausen

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Mike Nichols

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Pierre Laval

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

Kimiko Glenn

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.

Klaus Fuchs

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

Klaus Fuchs

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

Milton Friedman

Germany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.

Milton Friedman

Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.

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.

Martin Heidegger

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

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.

Paul Celan

Death is a master from Germany.

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!

Peter Eisenman

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

Kelly Rowland

I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

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.

Joel Silver

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

Heidi Klum

I certainly like working in Germany.

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.

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.