Hungarians Quotes:

It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.

- Robert Capa

topic: Talent, Enough, Hungarians

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

- Herbie Mann

topic: Heritage, Hungarians

Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Tears, Hungarians, Cyanide

After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Mother, Powerful, Years, Hungarians, Mother Tongue

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

topic: People, Use, Want, Hungarians

It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started to hate the Germans - as we began to move alphabetically through the map of the world. Now, the year 2000, we are fine with the Germans... but the Hungarians are pissing us off.

- Eddie Izzard

topic: Hate, Moving, Years, Hungarians

One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article about me which said I was a Hungarian writer but pretending not to be. Bearing in mind I can hardly write a cheque in Hungarian, I was delighted to be included in the pantheon of Hungarian writers.

- Tibor Fischer

topic: Book, Writing, Achievement, Hungarians, Cheques

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

- Tibor Fischer

topic: Senior, Strong, Attitude, Hungarians

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.

- Bruce Bennett

topic: Italian, Europe, Outlook, Hungarians

To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.

- Michael Novak

topic: War, Lying, Believe, Hungarians, Eastern Europe

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

- Bela Bartok

topic: Music, Echoes, Years, Hungarians, Barbarity

Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

- Adam Hochschild

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: War, Years, Museums, Hungarians, Lecturing

In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children that the leaders are good and their policies are wise. The core is religious intolerance. The sides simply change between the Atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Unitarians, etc., depending whether you are talking about the Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, America, etc. A common second reason is to prepare the boys to go to war and the girls to cheer them on.

- Marshall Fritz

source: "The Separation of School and State Alliance". Interview with Mary Leggewie, www.homeschoolchristian.com. June 3, 1999.

topic: Girl, Wise, Country, Hungarians, Religious Intolerance

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Two, Philosopher, Hours, Hungarians

In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

- Leonard Slatkin

topic: Believe, Ideas, People, Hungarians, Bartok

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

- George Andrew Olah

topic: Country, Children, War, Hungarians, General Education

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.

- Georg Solti

source: Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

topic: War, Independent, Years, Hungarians

'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

- Penn Jillette

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dog, Names, Wife, Hungarians, Maiden Names

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

- Adam Carolla

topic: Sorry, Night, Giving, Hungarians, Thai

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.170, Psychology Press

topic: Country, Pride, Enmity, Hungarians, Balkans

Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Dream, Adventure, Night, Hungarians

So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

- Eddie Izzard

topic: Europe, Turkeys, Empires, Hungarians, Ottoman Empire

It's really fascinating. I've never spent time in a place where they lost the wars, so it was interesting and I didn't know much about the history of the country. I didn't know they were under communist rule until the nineties. It's this whole attitude of being defeated, and frowning on optimism and American way of thinking. If we were laughing, Hungarian kids would be like "You're so American."

- Evan Jones

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Country, Attitude, War, Hungarians

I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Baby, Blood, Voice, Hungarians, Latina Women

The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.

- Tom Waits

source: Source: tomwaitsfan.com

topic: Strong, Independent, Style, Hungarians, Strong Connection

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

- Heinrich Himmler

topic: Men, Names, Facts, Hungarians, Spiteful

You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.

- Carmen Dell'Orefice

topic: Italian, Trying, Energy, Hungarians

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

- Joseph Brodsky

topic: Glowing, Uprising, Generations, Hungarians

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Germany, Comfort, Never Forget, Hungarians, Disobeying

Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.

- Carmen Dell'Orefice

topic: Mother, Fashion, Clothes, Hungarians

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

- Marisha Pessl

topic: Making Love, Library, Littles, Hungarians, Deserted

I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to "keep quiet." I can understand her because she was a Holocaust survivor, and for her survival, she had to keep quiet. But I didn't obey my grandmother when I was a child, and in this case, I don't obey her either.

- Csanad Szegedi

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Children, Grandmother, Choices, Hungarians, Holocaust Survivor

I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'

- Lang Lang

topic: Cat, Play, Two, Hungarians, Brahms

English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.

- Masiela Lusha

source: Source: thecelebritycafe.com

topic: Children, Believe, School, Hungarians, Special Education

The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.

- Martin Schulz

topic: Orbs, Problem, Prime, Hungarians

In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than a half million of the nation's Jews. And here we are now, more than 70 years later, witnessing a resurgence of xenophobia and authoritarianism, and not just in Eastern Europe.

- Susan Faludi

source: "Dear Susan, I Have Some Interesting News for You…". Interview With Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2016.

topic: Hungarians, National Identity, Authoritarianism

I am critical of the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pulling out of everything - the joint approach to the refugee issue, for example. He cannot disparage his colleagues in the EU either - that's not how we treat each other. We require solidarity: in refugee policies, just as in the financial architecture of the structural funds from which countries like Hungary have strongly profited from for years.

- Martin Schulz

topic: Country, Years, Issues, Hungarians, Orbs

I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house.

- Vilmos Zsigmond

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking, Light, House, Hungarians, Impressionists

The style of mustache I have is called a Hungarian, and you need a certain type of viscosity in the wax to make it work.

- Justin Hawkins

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Mustache, Style, Needs, Hungarians

They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom fighters can get jobs that student sit-ins can't get. They can go and sleep and live in hotels that Martin Luther King himself can't live in.They are recognized and respected because they are fighters, not because they are sit-iners or freedom.

- Malcolm X

topic: Country, Kings, Jobs, Hungarians

My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its not enough to be conservative, you still need to have the brainpower to be a Supreme Court justice. And, if Harriet Miers is confirmed, she likely won't be in the same league with her colleagues in terms of gray matter.

- Dick Morris

topic: Mother, Gray Matter, League, Hungarians, Court Justice

One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted.

- Stanley Kunitz

topic: Made, Critics, Feels, Hungarians

The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.

- George Mikes

topic: Humorous, Rights, Japan, Hungarians, Czechoslovakia

It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: www.usatoday.com

topic: Past, Government, Deportation, Hungarians, Wartime

I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.

- Anna May Wong

topic: Real, Tired, Play, Hungarians

The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Country, Rome, Paris, Hungarians, Budapest

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

topic: Literature, Wonderful, Hungarians, Lyric Poetry

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

- Lajos Kossuth

topic: Kings, Order, Issues, Hungarians, Hungary

Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us--the Irish!

- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

topic: Italian, Males, Speak, Hungarians