Top 802 Quotes & Sayings by Austrian Authors - Page 3

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

On my travels I, at least, did not see Serbia as a land of paranoiacs - much more as the huge room of an orphaned, yes, an orphaned, abandoned child.

One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

I don't think I'm the one that invented glamour at all.

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

It's better I keep my mouth shut. Let my feet do the talking.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Emotions run high when you have a bad day; you can't hide it.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.

F1 needs Ferrari much more than Ferrari needs F1.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Taste is so much more important than fashion.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

I think you have to improve every day a little bit so you don't have one day where there's a big thing coming.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

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

The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.

I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this life of a writer was not so hopeless, not so bad.

I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.