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Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe. -- Niki Lauda
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. -- Karl von Frisch
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
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
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
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
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. -- Karl von Frisch
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you. -- Billy Joel
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. -- Bernard Arnault
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. -- Adolf Loos
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. -- Karl von Frisch
From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train. -- George Burns
I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to. -- Thomas G. Stemberg
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
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
I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers. -- Niki Lauda
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss. -- Eduard Hanslick
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. -- Harry Mathews
White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking. -- Edith Sitwell
Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it centered in New York, London, Los Angeles or Nashville but rather St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Paris. -- Seymour Stein
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too. -- Leon Askin
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
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly. -- Frederic Chopin
I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris. -- Romy Schneider
I've been to Bali twice and Marrakech twice. I thought Vienna was great. I will take girlfriends to places they've never been before. -- Eion Bailey
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I. -- Eric Kandel
I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95. -- Sebastian Stan
My small experience on 'Dancing with the Stars' allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different. -- Apolo Ohno
Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. -- Charlie Munger
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before. -- Eric Kandel
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values. -- Eric Kandel
Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music. -- Lawrence Weschler
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. -- Terry Eagleton
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. -- Russell Baker
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas. -- Steven Pressfield
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir! -- Gorilla Monsoon
The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances. -- Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne
My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna. -- Fran Lebowitz
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt. -- Karl Kraus
I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska. -- Douglas Coupland
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious. -- Karl Kraus
You might be a redneck if your wife keeps a can of Vienna sausage in her purse. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed -- Blixa Bargeld
[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets. -- Maria Callas
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
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. -- Erica Jong
The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty. -- Charles Emmerson
Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community. -- Radhika Coomaraswamy
The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall! -- Franz Grillparzer
In my life, my parents wanted me to be a musician, I was supposed to go to Vienna to study piano. But this train wanted to go in another direction. -- Golshifteh Farahani
Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him. -- Eric Weiner
I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. -- Charlie Munger
To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be. -- Robertson Davies
In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were determined to raise my two sisters and me according to Afghan traditions. -- Azita Ghanizada
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young. -- Eric Kandel
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
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists and non-scientists, between Jews and non-Jews, between artists, writers and scientists, including medical scientists. -- Eric Kandel
You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done." -- David Longstreth
[Eva Braun] also stayed with [Adolf Hitler] at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, the Hotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg and a few other places. I was never with her in these places, though my mother was there in Vienna. -- Gretl Braun
As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit. -- Peter Morgan
My friend created an iPhone app that locates Vienna Beef products across the country. Personally, I came hardwired with an internal GPS that instinctively points me toward coffee shops, cupcake stores and the perfect Chicago-style dog, so I find this technology redundant. -- Jen Lancaster
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
The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School. -- Webster Tarpley
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new translation, Anthea Bell perfectly captures Stefan Zweig's glorious evocation of a lost world, Vienna's golden age, in which he grew up and flourished. -- Ronald Harwood
Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction. -- Quentin Crisp
I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries. -- Eric Kandel
Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, none of them were born in Vienna. They all moved there. It became a magnet, but what made it magnetized in the first place? There has to be a seed there. In the case of Vienna of about 1780, it was this deep-seated love of music. -- Eric Weiner
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face. -- Stephen Fry
In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.' -- Hiram Maxim
I've had people ask me to come and work for them. I went to Vienna and did three scenes in a movie for a guy that I met at a retrospective of Cassavetes films. It's a great way to travel, to meet people, to see different countries and cultures. -- Seymour Cassel
I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first. -- Shirley Temple
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any. -- David Attenborough
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe. -- Rose George
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud. -- Tony Kushner
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself. -- Viggo Mortensen
You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam. -- Alexander Haig

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