Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Austrian Authors - Page 2

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

Memories are the best things in life, I think.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

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

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.

To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

If you fire people, you fire customers.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Italy is a geographical expression.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

What is to give light must endure burning.

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work.

It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1.

I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.