Europe quotes

• The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics. (Antonin Artaud) [europe/borders/mind/logic]
• Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. (Edmund Burke) [europe]
• I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever. (Edmund Burke) [look/age/europe]
• Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence. (Benjamin Franklin) [europe/science/nice/spirit]
• Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. (Arthur Koestler) [relations/universe/europe/wisdom]
• The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season). (Milan Kundera) [change/europe/stage/development]
• For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. (Harriet Martineau) [class/europe]
• An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [artist/housing/europe]
• Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. (Margaret Thatcher) [europe/america/philosophy]
• We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States. (Luther Allison) [thing/europe]
• I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair. (Nina Hagen) [tram/europe/thinking]
• I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!. (Janet Jackson) [people/america/europe/people]
• In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot more males in the audience. In Japan, I don't even notice any kids, partially because they're a lot more strict about fan behavior over there. (Avril Lavigne) [america/teens/europe/more]
• Most of the 14 films I've done, however, have been independents shot in Europe and Great Britain. (Alan Rickman) [europe]
• Dude, we took Fireball Ministry out on our last Europe tour, ... We were so psyched on them that we asked them to come back. They put on a really good show and they're almost like the new Black Sabbath in my book. The Knives are really cool too. We've been friends with them forever. They have a cool Queens Of The Stone Age-type vibe. I just got their record and I like it a lot. (Bam Margera) [europe]
• The yellow stars I have worn on three coats in Europe prevented that from happening. (Ben Kingsley) [europe]
• Of all the films I've worked on, that is among my favorites. It's an incredibly beautiful film. (Levinson) really captures what it means to be in a family and the ups and downs of that. He maps out beautifully how families moved from Eastern Europe to the United States and how they got broken up by the modern age. (Elijah Wood) [film/family/europe/age]
• [Polanski shoots in Europe and generally works with European producing partners. He has nonetheless managed to attract Hollywood stars - like Sigourney Weaver in 1994's] Death and the Maiden ... Frantic. (Harrison Ford) [europe/death]
• [Exiled from the United States, Polanski shoots in Europe and generally works with European producing partners. He has nonetheless managed to attract Hollywood stars -- like Sigourney Weaver in 1994's] Death and the Maiden ... Frantic. (Harrison Ford) [europe/death]
• For five years or six years, almost nothing happened in Europe, there was a de facto moratorium where products weren't approved (Hugh Grant) [europe]
• But Europe has redefined and redesigned the regulatory architecture and the last year we saw the beginnings of products being approved. I passionately hope we will see that pace picking up. (Hugh Grant) [europe/being/willpower]
• Americans are the most generous country on the planet, ... I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you. (Hugh Jackman) [europe/attitude/being/embrace]
• I definitely want to do that but don't turn my back on anything in Europe, too, because you know I started there. (Jason Statham) [europe]
• France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. (Johnny Depp) [europe/culture/thing/people]
• Fame, celebrity - it's not such a big deal in Europe. People seem to understand that you just have a weird job. They're not running after you, trying to carve chunks out of you. It's strange in the states. Most fans here are great, but there's a handful who have seen the movies and feel they know you. They think it's alright to touch you and ask personal questions. (Johnny Depp) [fame/celebrity/europe/people]
• Taken in context, what I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation. It is a shame that the metaphor I used was taken so radically out of context and slung about irresponsibly by the news media. There was no anti-American sentiment. In fact, it was just the opposite. I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful. (Johnny Depp) [europe/america/shame/news]
• 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. (Lee Majors) [europe]
• In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum. (Anthony Quinn) [europe/artist]
• “Then I went to Europe and returned to the preparation of the Hannibal character. So I went hiking up into the Alps. I was deeply engaged in weapons training, riding elephants.” (Vin Diesel) [europe/character/weapons/training]
• I had just returned to Europe after an agonizing year of supernatural solitude under contract to 20th-Century-Fox. (Barbara Steele) [europe/solitude/contract]
• I yearned for the privacy and shadowy dark corridors of shrouded London streets, smelling of wet hawthorne, containing their secret nocturnal pleasures, and the intimacy of Europe. (Barbara Steele) [privacy/europe]

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