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Quotes About Belgrade

I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
~ Tea Obreht
Do you know what we call windows in Belgrade?' she asked. All our windows are broken and crisscrossed with scotch tape. 'Windows 99.
~ Jasmina Tešanovi?
On the train back, Svetlana told me about a Serbian movie director who had been friends with her father in Belgrade. The director's wife, an actress, had gone to Paris to make a movie with a young French director. The French director had died tragically, by falling off a bar-stool. "They say it might have been suicide," Svetlana said.
~ Elif Batuman
Do you know what we call windows in Belgrade?' she asked. All our windows are broken and crisscrossed with scotch tape. 'Windows 99.
~ Jasmina Tešanovi?
plans, Lola's doubts revisited her. Branko was a zealot. In Belgrade he'd been interrogated and beaten
~ Geraldine Brooks
We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.
~ Ivica Dacic
The facts remain that the Serbian reply was not read by the man on whose decision the fate of the world still hung, until nearly sixty hours after it had been delivered at Belgrade; and that before he could act upon it, the irrevocable declaration of war had gone forth from Vienna.
~ Winston S. Churchill
And the Austrian army, awfully arrayed, boldly, by battery, besieged Belgrade.
~ Unknown