#vienna

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#dead #different #now #quick #vienna

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#i #in the past #loved #man #must

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. ↗

— Karl von Frisch

#exams #faculty #first #i #munich

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#conducting #could #first #go #got

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. ↗

— Karl von Frisch

#grammar #grammar school #i #later #medicine

1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too. ↗

— Leon Askin

#art #city #cross #deal #great

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

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

— Karl von Frisch

#i #received #university #vienna