#austria

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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?


Theodore Bikel


#austria #both #countries #cultural #france

I took a few steps toward the kitchen window although I'd already realized I couldn't look through the kitchen window because, as already mentioned, it's covered with filth from top to bottom. Austrian kitchen windows are all totally filthy and we can't look through them and naturally it's to our greatest advantage, I thought, not to be able to look through them because then we find ourselves staring into the mouth of catastrophe, into the chaos of Austrian kitchen filth.


Thomas Bernhard


#filth #nature

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.


Leon Askin


#austrian #bring #could #germany #naturally

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.


Billy Wilder


#beethoven #believe #brilliant #german #hitler

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.


Hedy Lamarr


#born #child #fairy #father #fire

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.


Edward Grey


#ambassador #austria #became #between #concerned

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.


Edward Grey


#ask #asking #austria #austrian #been

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.


Edward Grey


#critical #decisive #dependent #german #germany

With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.


John Higgins


#austria #coming #company #east #especially

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.


Emily Greene Balch


#britain #catastrophically #diminished #france #germany