Europe Quotes — Page 36

MM

Author

“Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.”

Looks Europe Blue

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MM

Mary McCarthy

Author

“It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad senseelements will move on to a new world in space. The problems of mass society will be transported into space, leaving behind this world as a kind of Europe, which then eventually tourists will visit. The Old World. I'm only half joking.”

Moving Space Europe

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HT

Honor Tracy

Writer

“In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.”

Europe Spain

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LA

Luther Allison

Musician

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

Firsts Europe

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

“The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.”

Men Believe Europe

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Michael Emerson

Actor

“So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.”

White Europe Average

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Michael Lewis

Author, Journalist

“When an American declares bankruptcy, when he hits bottom, he can reinvent himself. There's a story he can tell. We tolerate reinvention. We encourage reinvention. That's what this country has that Europe does not. It's not just a crisis; it's an opportunity.”

Country Opportunity Europe

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Mike Tyson

Professional Boxer

“When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.”

America Crazy Europe

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Martin Walker

Journalist

“So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.”

Country Europe Banking Crisis

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Kofi Annan

Diplomat, Politician

“I spent my youth and my most formative years in Africa. I left Africa when I was about 20, 21, and when Mo says a great African, I was really moulded by my African experience, although I had the good fortune that by the time I was 24 I had studied and worked on three continents - Africa, the US, and Europe.”

Years Three Europe

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

“Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.”

Passion Women Europe

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