Quotes and Sayings about Heidelberg

I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a 'unique'; and wanted to add it to his museum.

Mark Twain in A Tramp Abroad

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Life is too short to learn German.

Richard Porson (britischer klassischer Philologe) - 25.12.1759 - 25.09.1808

Germany

The Germans have six months of winter and six months of no summer.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Summer Germany Winter

German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Mark Twain

Germany Languages

Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Germany Fairytales

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

Barack Obama

Germany Berlin

The Germans and many others have the gift to make science inaccessible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Germany Science

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

Mark Twain in A Tramp Abroad

Germany Wine

In Germany, success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Gerhard Schröder - about Germany dropping out of the EURO 2000

Germany Success

Germany... where the national motto is, "let's stick to the present, shall we?"

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Germany

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Mark Twain

Germany

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

Mark Twain

Germany Berlin

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

George S. Patton

Enemies & Opponents

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

Taking action Perfection

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton

War

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

George S. Patton

Sheep

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

Winning Challenges

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

Jackson Browne

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Jackson Browne

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

Jackson Browne

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Jackson Browne

Porsche

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Jackson Browne

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

Michael Fassbender

Introvertierte Sprüche Extrovertierte Sprüche

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

Michael Fassbender

Comfort Zone

I always approach film as a fan.

Michael Fassbender

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

Michael Fassbender

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Michael Fassbender

The question whether to carry out the Championships in Qatar should have been answered way earlier - with "no"!

Hansi Flick - September 2022

FIFA World Cup 2022

It's sad that this tournament is not a World Cup for the fans. I know many people who would like to go to Qatar but don't out of several reasons.

Hansi Flick (as Coach of the German football team) - August 2022

FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar

There's no easy groups in the World Cup. They've all got their strengths. We'll take it as it is.

Hansi Flick - April 2022, about the World Cup 2022 draw

FIFA World Cup 2022

I am very excited, we got very good and young players in Germany. We can be very optimistic about the coming tournaments, like the EURO 2024.

Hansi Flick - Mai 2021, about becoming Coach of the German team

Soccer European Championships 2024

This year we only won the championship.

Hansi Flick (as coach at Bayern Munich) - May 2021, one year after winning the triple with FCB

Bayern Munich

A kiss is something you need both hands for.

Mark Twain

Kissing Hands

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Mark Twain in A Tramp Abroad

Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

Harvey Dent in Batman - The Dark Knight

Julius Caesar Rome

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vienna - which is kinda the same.

Vienna

Every time I describe a city, I'm saying something about Venice. The images from memory, once fixed in words, are erased. Maybe I'm afraid of losing Venice at once, if I'm talking about it. speaking in other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

Invisible City

Venice

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

Madeline Wheeler in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 3

Paris

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

We stole the Statue of Liberty! The small one, from Las Vegas. I won't even mention the Eiffel Tower - also Vegas.

Gru in Despicable Me

Las Vegas

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

Terry Pratchett

Amsterdam Bicycles

One of the main differences between Munich and Berlin is that when thousands of people get drunk in silly clothes and start vomitting, we don't call it "Oktoberfest", we call it "Tuesday".

Felix Lobrecht

Berlin Munich Oktoberfest

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