Quotes About Europe

This is magnificent," said Justine. "I've never seen anything like it. But I can't make out the artist's name?" "It's by a friend of mine," said Irene. "His name is not known outside of Vienna, but it will be—I think someday soon, all of Europe will be talking about Gustav Klimt. I was the model for this one. I don't know if you can see the resemblance.

Cowperwood was shocked by the nudity of the Venus which conveyed an atmosphere of European freedom not common to America;

I couldn't shoot. When I went to play in Europe, I learned to shoot better. I could jump, so people would just back off of me.

Every June, Gypsies come in caravans from all over Europe to honor Django Reinhardt at a festival in Samois-sur-Seine. When I was little, I started hanging out with them. They fascinated me - they really, literally, live in the moment. They take every day as if it's their last.

Junior Blender is a hardcore dancehall head. He's in Supersonic, which is one of the top soundclash sound-systems in Europe.

My first job in the States was as a junior fashion editor at 'Harper's Bazaar,' which I enjoyed, but not for all that long because I was fired by the editor in chief, who told me that I was too 'European.'

Coffee in Italy and some places in Europe is great, but there's just something about Australian coffee.

A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'

I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.

It was difficult at Atletico Madrid. It was my first experience in Europe when I went there and La Liga was hard.

Labour needs to lead - lead on Brexit, lead in Europe, lead for the people.

Europe has massive challenges in completing the single market, the free movement of labour or benefits.

Dracula shows his fangs, and the Okie flees through a cornfield. Cornstalks smack her face. "Help!" she screams to a sky full of crows. "He's not actually from Europe!

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

Hitler had described the Queen Mother as 'the most dangerous woman in Europe', because of her effect on the national mood; her daughter was not too far behind.

They wanted to forget that there ever had been, in Europe, any other civilization at all. There was so much beauty they had not made, so many books they had not written, so many records of wars in which they had not fought, and so many ideas of human behavior which were anathema to them.

the hamam remains the only living descendant of the Roman bathing tradition, and it was via the hamam that the Roman custom would return to medieval Europe.

the cleanest corner of early medieval Europe was Arab Spain.

Although European thinkers see the Greeks as their intellectual forebears, the Greeks themselves looked toward the East for the sources of true wisdom-to Egypt, Persia, and, during the early centuries of the common era, India.

In the modern world of North America and Europe, special cemeteries for pets have existed for more than a hundred years.

The American bartender of the 'Gay Nineties' was an institution. His fame spread to the four corners of the globe, and visitors to our shores from the continent bowed before his skill in concocting tempting mixtures of 'liquid lightening.' He was and still is in a class by himself. We may go to Europe for our chefs, but Europe comes to us for its bartenders," wrote W. C. Whitfield in his 1939 book Just Cocktails.

Yet, the invasion was not one prong of a grand campaign on the part of the caliphate to conquer "Europe," which was at that time a poor and underdeveloped backwater and did not figure at all in the Arabo-Islamic imagination.

Basic training was at Aldershot and if there is a more depressing place than this in all Europe, then I would not be interested to know of it.

at a seminal yet still little known moment in history, Homo sapiens developed the full battery of cognitive skills that we ourselves possess. After a surprisingly short time, perhaps a mere five thousand years, their descendants moved northward into Eurasia and Europe.