Sebastian Koch Quotes

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

I am happy to be a German. I'm proud, or I wouldn't be here in the team.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

My friends often tell me how very German I still am.

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

I was the all-American face.

No matter how one looks at it, Japanese are superior to Americans in every respect. But as a group, we are inferior to them. So from now on we must have group training, foster science, and the entire nation must labor hard to construct a new better Japan than today.

I'm third generation. I was born in Germany, grew up in Germany, and many of my friends are German. I love playing for Germany. I'm proud I can play for the national team.

In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud.

Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

I always make this comparison between Bob Dylan and David Simon. Not in the most flattering way possible - these two intellectual Jews who totally identify with the black man's struggle!

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears.

I am almost German now.

In German, there are only so many things you can write about.

I feel German, that's for sure. I grew up in Germany, I went to school in Germany and most of my friends are there. I play for Germany.

I'm German! Actually, I love my countr, ;I love the language. The German language is very special because it is so precise. There is a word for everything. There are so many wonderful words that other languages don't have. It is impressive to have such a rich language, and I love to work in that language.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.