Vienna Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

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.

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.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

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.

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.

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.

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

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

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

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.

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.