Quotes on Europe

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

Author: Bud Abbott

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

Author: Luther Allison

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

Author: Luther Allison

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

Author: Aldrich Ames

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

Author: R. Apple, Jr.

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Author: Adrian Belew

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

Author: Julien Benda

All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.

Author: Julien Benda

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.

Author: Peter Berger

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Author: Otto Bismarck

The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

Author: Aristide Briand

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.

Author: Aristide Briand

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world.

Author: James Byrnes

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

Author: Peter Camejo

The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.

Author: Jim Cantalupo

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

Author: Juan Carlos

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Author: Angela Carter

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Author: Deana Carter

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Author: Jacques Chirac

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

Author: Warren Christopher

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

Author: Joe Cocker

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

Author: Phil Collins

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

Author: Broderick Crawford

I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.

Author: Puff Daddy

I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.

Author: Glenn Danzig

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

Author: Jacques Delors

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.

Author: Savitri Devi

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

Author: Thomas Dooley

I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson.

Author: Shelley Duvall

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

Author: Keith Emerson

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

Author: Enya

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Author: Arthur Erickson

I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.

Author: Heinz Fischer

I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support.

Author: Lita Ford

After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.

Author: Robbie Fowler

You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.

Author: Herman Gorter

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

Author: Herman Gorter

The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.

Author: Herman Gorter

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

Author: Norman Granz

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Author: Edward Grey

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

Author: Jurgen Habermas

I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair.

Author: Nina Hagen

The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.

Author: Lee Hazlewood

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Author: Billy Higgins

Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.

Author: Heinrich Himmler

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

Author: Heinrich Himmler

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe.

Author: Heinrich Himmler

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

Author: Paul Hoffman

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Author: John Hooker

In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.

Author: Helmut Jahn

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

Author: Quincy Jones

I do not separate France from Europe.

Author: Lionel Jospin

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

Author: Lajos Kossuth

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

Author: Lajos Kossuth

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

Author: Christian Lange

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

Author: Niki Lauda

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

Author: Pierre Laval

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

Author: Pierre Laval

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Author: Pierre Laval

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Author: Louis Leakey

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

Author: Kurt Loder

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Author: Anita Loos

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Author: Alison Lurie

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

Author: Lee Majors

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.

Author: Peter Mandelson

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

Author: Harry Mathews

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

Author: A. McLean

In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

Author: Vince McMahon

The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.

Author: Christine McVie

Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.

Author: Angela Merkel

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

Author: Angela Merkel

Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.

Author: Stjepan Mesic

I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.

Author: Stjepan Mesic

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.

Author: Prince Metternich

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

Author: Tom Metzger

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

Author: Kelly Miller

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

Author: Robert Mugabe

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

Author: Hidetoshi Nakata

I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

Author: Hidetoshi Nakata

My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

Author: Claude Nicollier

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

Author: Yannick Noah

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

Author: Barack Obama

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

Author: William Odom

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

Author: Gordon Parks

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

Author: Richard Perle

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

Author: Goran Persson

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

Author: Sydney Pollack

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

Author: Romano Prodi

I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Author: Suzi Quatro

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

Author: Lord Robertson

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

Author: Lord Robertson

Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

Author: Kevin Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Author: Sonny Rollins

Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

Author: R. Rowland

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

Author: Ibrahim Rugova

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

Author: Paul Samuelson

You can't build Europe against anyone.

Author: Jacques Santer

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

Author: Rick Schroder

Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

Author: Klaus Schulze

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

Author: Jack Schwartz

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

Author: Irwin Shaw

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

Author: Peter Singer

In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.

Author: Robert Solomon

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

Author: Robert Solomon

There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well.

Author: George Soros

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

Author: Cat Stevens

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

Author: John Tesh

In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

Author: Tony Visconti

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

Author: Miroslav Vitous

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

Author: Miroslav Vitous

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

Author: Gijs Vries

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

Author: Gijs Vries

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

Author: Robert Wagner

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

Author: Andrzej Wajda

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Author: Simone Weil

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Author: Isaac Wise

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Author: Isaac Wise

If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats.

Author: Pia Zadora