Top 1200 West Berlin Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It happens in the West most of the time - the biggest of stars, they audition. That's how it should happen.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

Gus van Sant I met at the Berlin film festival, and he came up to me. He had a little film in the festival called 'Mala Noche' that he had made for $20,000. He said: 'You are one of my favourite actors. I'm doing 'My Own Private Idaho' with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. You should be in it!' Then I started working with Gus.

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Walk your dogs on the beach that's my luxury. The food's not so good in West Palm, but you can't have it all.

Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick of it.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.

To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

I try to be in bed by 11. Sometimes I watch a 'West Wing' rerun. That relaxes me.

Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it's one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.

I am behind Kanye West for American President 100 per cent.

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in West Side Story when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid and I just like forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved West Side Story so much and I somehow managed to get the role. I had an afro and glasses, and the guy who cast me goes, "All right, the first thing to go is the afro and the next thing, I'm going to buy you contacts and we're going to get you..." So he kind of molded me into what it had to - that's still probably the hardest role I've every played in anything, the most taxing role.

Since Newcastle I've had a fantastic time at Blackburn and then here, at West Ham.

I love songs, Patty Larkin, Sharon Stone, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe.

Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive. And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.

I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not even a real noise: a breath, a trifle of a sound. You have the same thing in music: if in the score there is a pianissimo marked that ends in nothing. Up thee you can feel this 'nothing'. With an orchestra it is very difficult to achieve it. The Berlin Philharmonic manage it sometimes.

My sister Pam and I were raised on the North West Frontier of India, on the border with Afghanistan.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

I think I'm capable of doing the job at any club in the world, so I'm sure I can do it at West Ham.

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

You cannot negotiate with organizations that are based on an ideology whose core is to destroy the West and America.

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.

In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.

At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.

I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from a major WarPac nuclear target until the Berlin Wall came down and the CW ended. Knowing you can die horribly at any moment because of decisions made by alien intelligences thousands of miles away who don't even know you exist - there's something Lovecraftian about that, isn't there?

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

I was a little bit shocked at quite how football was more like the wild west.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

As those who have spent time in West Virginia know, this is truly a special place.

I hold that this must be said, for treaties only make sense when concluded by honor-loving peoples and honor-conscious governments. Germany wishes to establish honest relations with the peoples of neighboring countries. We have done this in the East, and I believe that not only Berlin but Warsaw as well will rejoice in the decontamination of the atmosphere brought about through our joint efforts.

West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.

Everybody in the West Coast always like to hear YG, RJ, and Mustard together.

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.