#berlin

I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera. ↗

— Pola Negri

#between #dec #i #my time #pictures

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#city #course #i #interesting #like

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#between #bring #compassion #correct #cuba

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#aircraft #berlin #buildings #down #few

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#capitalism #communism #conservatives #hamburgers #marxism

The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost. ↗

— Philip Sington

#relativity #s-bahn #time #movies

There's more to living than being alive. ↗

— Anberlin

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

#berlin #berlin wall #cases #failures #fall

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#back #berlin #childhood #days #i

At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#berlin wall #break #confidence #could #down