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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam. -- Madeleine Albright
The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out. -- Alfred Jodl
I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras. -- Skitch Henderson
We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island. -- Oliver Kahn
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. -- Graham Coxon
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. -- Karl von Frisch
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. -- Zubin Mehta
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. -- F. L. Lucas
Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach. -- Rachel Johnson
My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will. -- Jimmy Carl Black
The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians. -- Daniel Craig
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. -- Steven Spielberg
My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation. -- Marcel Duchamp
We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich. -- Karl Amadeus Hartmann
The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy. -- Mark Spitz
Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible. -- Jim McKay
Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible. -- Michel Seuphor
I remember, with the third [Twilight] movie, when we went to Munich and the entire Olympic stadium was filled with fans. We walked in there and did nothing. -- Robert Pattinson
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich. -- Josef Albers
I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich. -- James Rosenquist
The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second. -- Gary Neville
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time. -- Joseph Goebbels
The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights up a different colour according to who is playing. It's superb -- Claudia Schiffer
The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights up a different colour according to who is playing. It's superb. -- Claudia Schiffer
Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand. -- George Steiner
If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football. -- Franz Beckenbauer
They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none. -- Simon Brotherton
I got 'Munich' after I had done 'In Treatment' in Israel, which was very successful. But, when I actually shot it, nobody knew it was going to be sold all over the world and be so successful. -- Ayelet Zurer
Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club. -- Arjen Robben
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich. -- Brian Williams
I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans. -- Rick Atkinson
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. -- Marcel Duchamp
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis. -- Hans Haacke
[I] love 'Munich', man. That's a very underappreciated film. -- Janusz Kaminski
I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms. -- Adolf Hitler
Bayern Munich are probably the standout team on the planet. -- Michael Owen
I cried when Mario Gotze told me hell leave Borussia Dortmund & join Bayern Munich -- Marco Reus
I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there. -- Steve Purdy
Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment. -- Chris Huhne
Really fantastic film, 'Munich'. So yeah, if I would say, what's the most underappreciated film, I think 'Munich' would be the one. -- Janusz Kaminski
The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry! -- Thomas Campbell
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich. -- Anatole France
Only Bayern Munich really have some sort of a guarantee to win if they only catch a good day. All the others need really good days to win. I like that. -- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Liverpool are one of the dynasties of the game. They have won five European Cups and their status is up there with AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. -- Brendan
The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time. -- Gerhard Richter
When we were in the Munich house, sometimes [Adolf Hitler] would call the house line after one of their fights. They would talk and then Eva [Braun] would emerge from her room and behave normally. -- Gretl Braun
If, as we decided in Munich, there will be a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian assistance can flow into Syria - then this will open the door for the beginning of the political transition process. -- Adel al-Jubeir
In the Munich agreement in late 1938 [Franklin] Roosevelt sent his chief adviser Sumner Welles, who came back with a very supportive statement saying that Hitler was someone we could really do business with and so on. -- Noam Chomsky
I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other films, Munich would be the one that's really, really amazing storytelling. -- Janusz Kaminski
Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. -- Marcel Duchamp
Back in 2007, many people criticized me for my talk at the Munich Security Conference. But what did I say there? I merely pointed out that the former NATO Secretary General Manfred WÃ¶rner had guaranteed that NATO would not expand eastwards after the fall of the Wall. -- Vladimir Putin
I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945) -- Adolf Hitler
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by workers' and soldiers' councils. Adolf Hitler, recuperating in a military hospital, reacted violently to this news. "It became impossible for me to sit still one minute more," he wrote in Mein Kampf. -- James Cross Giblin

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