#austria

I took a few steps toward the kitchen window although I'd already realized I couldn't look through the kitchen window because, as already mentioned, it's covered with filth from top to bottom. Austrian kitchen windows are all totally filthy and we can't look through them and naturally it's to our greatest advantage, I thought, not to be able to look through them because then we find ourselves staring into the mouth of catastrophe, into the chaos of Austrian kitchen filth. ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

#filth #nature

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. ↗

— Mario Batali

#austria #croatia #food #germany #great

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! ↗

— David Chalmers

#australian #austrian #find #i #more

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#beethoven #believe #brilliant #german #hitler

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#born #child #fairy #father #fire

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#austria #both #countries #cultural #france

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany. ↗

— Leon Askin

#austrian #bring #could #germany #naturally

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. ↗

— Arthur Seyss-Inquart

#germany #greater #hide #inclination #national

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#austrian #born #class #disastrous #end

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#brother #committed #father #fighting #had