Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by German Authors - Page 18

Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

There are high hurdles for expelling someone from a party, and with good reason.

I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history.

I don't like to diet, so I work out with a trainer a few times a week. We do kickboxing and strengthening - it's hard! I also do yoga and love to walk everywhere. I live in Brooklyn, so walking is the best way to discover the city and the neighbourhoods.

As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.

The game has progressed, but in the end, they are still people out on the pitch, people with different personalities and feelings.

I was living in a suburban town north of London, dutifully practicing my Mozart sonatas. And the milkman who delivered the milk in the mornings was kind of milkman by day, composer-artist by night.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

I'm not one to think of burying my head in the sand - I've always been a positive person and still am now.

When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?

Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Live your life and forget your age.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

If the lecture is good, then everything is too smooth. That's the same in music: if the performance is too good, you really don't enjoy it, because it just goes by, and you can never penetrate into the heart of it. Sometimes a poor performance is better for enjoyment, because you can look at those things that were wrong and analyze them.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

If I were afraid, I'd quit Formula One immediately, I've earned enough.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

Pop music means everything to me. I've been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

Just follow your dreams and be patient.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

When I was a student, if you accidentally wrote a triad in a piece of yours, it was just sort of like you were breaking the law! You just couldn't do it. And that just meant you were a bad composer.

Action alone doesn't work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

The pressure in Hollywood is bigger to look good than in Germany. In Germany, we are more forgiving. Having a personal coach in Germany is not nearly as common as in Hollywood. In Hollywood, I think everyone has a personal trainer.

I'm ashamed to be German.

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

I do not like the red carpet; I prefer the green pitch.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

Back-light is the cinematographer's friend.

I opted for BVB because I need my regular environment where I feel at home. It has nothing to do that I am not able to handle the pressure or what is permanently speculated. We are also measured in wins and trophies here at Dortmund.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

I don't think it's my duty to dismiss rumours which other people invent.

Sometimes, it is good to lose - you learn.

Education has been really important for me.

I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Nobody speaks German outside of Germany.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

I have played football since I was five years old. This is my core skill and it will always remain so.

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.