Austrian Culture Quotes & Sayings

Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup. — Milan Kundera

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. — Emily Bronte

Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market. — Noam Chomsky

There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering. — Annie Proulx

We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence — Steve Hagen

I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

passionless good ideas are not only useless, they are a liability. — Harrison Owen

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force. — Brit Hume

I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way. — John Barrowman