Europeans Quotes

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(The Europeans declared that they were finding the Americans` pace of play too slow. Ian Wright said:) Naming no names - Michael Chang ... I`m going to buy him a 36 hour watch.

- Chris Evans

Romania has a distinctive smell on its own, ... Driving to set stunk and then getting to set stunk even worse. You`re in confined places with guys. And Europeans are not noted for their hygiene. I don`t think there`s too much body deodorant in Romania. It was definitely an experience as far as being in tight quarters with a lot of people, grown men.

- Cole Hauser

Europeans are incredibly negative about America at the moment. I think they lose sight of the fact that the country`s a very divided place right now.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

I`ve lived in Europe for the better part of 12 years, and I`ve noticed that one of the big errors Europeans make is to dismiss America as having no culture. That`s an incredible mistake, and whether it`s born of arrogance or neurosis caused by the fact that America is perceived as hugely powerful, it`s wrong. For a century or two, a decent percentage of the major writers, poets, artists, musicians, painters, filmmakers, actors, screenwriters, and dancers have been born in the U.S. Americans have acquitted themselves pretty well in those areas. There`s a great culture there, an enormous culture. I just don`t plain like a lot of it, but it`s OK if other people like it. (Late 1990`s qoute)

- John Malkovich

I don`t understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

- Joni Mitchell

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

- Joschka Fischer

Europeans don`t seem to have the groupie mentality.

- Kid Rock

Regarding the different reactions of Europeans and Americans to his film, "Jarhead" (2005): "I feel they`ve understood in Europe. In America, it`s like talking about a different movie. Fundamentally, Jarhead disobeys all the laws of American movies, and not just the political laws of American movies right now which demand on some level to tell us which side they`re on. In Europe, there`s a sense this film comes from the tradition of absurdist war movies about the futility of conflict. It has more in common with Beckett, Sartre and Banuel than it does with Oliver Stone. In America, they assumed I was trying to make an Oliver Stone movie and that I`d failed."

- Sam Mendes

I`m not a very popular person. I was pushed to show the unfinished version of Brown Bunny in Cannes, against my judgement. And even though a lot of negative reaction to the film came from not setting up the presentation very well, I still felt responsible and disturbed. But Europeans are animals. Who cares?.

- Vincent Gallo

Democrats couldn`t care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can`t look at themselves in the mirror.

- Ann Coulter

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

- Samuel P. Huntington

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

- Bela Lugosi

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

- Mary McCarthy

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.

- Paul Hoffman

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don`t sell out to the new ones.

- Kathleen Turner

I find the idea of today`s icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring. I think the Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don`t sell out to the new ones.

- Kathleen Turner

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

- Isabelle Huppert

He has the Mr. Prospector/A.P. Indy cross that`s worked so well. He`s a horse I think is unique in that he`s going to appeal to Americans and Europeans. He`s got a real loose walk, and he looks like he could go either way, dirt or turf. But he`s got enough hip and he`s stout enough where he could be a Derby horse, too.

- Mark Taylor

I am disappointed because I love competing, but the Europeans are the highlight of the year.

- Carolina Klüft

Just as Europeans had taken advantage of their early lead in gunpowder weapons to support a wave of world conquest, they ushered out the age of gunpowder with a second and more comprehensive program of colonial domination,

- Jack Kelly

In Jamaica, we played a few games and found out just how serious this game is. There were a lot of Europeans playing down there, and we entered some tournaments, got beat out, and determined that we were going to go back and win the tournament next time.

- Gary Grant

If the Europeans want to intervene, that`s their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

- Pat Buchanan

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

- Oriana Fallaci

when we supported Solidarity, we were criticized by the Europeans for being naïve. Yet in 1989, when the Berlin Wall was about to collapse, there were very few American officials who believed that history was about to turn.

- Daniel Fried

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don`t even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It`s enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

- Suzanne Fields

That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can`t understand this, what`s wrong with me?" An American says: "I can`t understand this, what`s wrong with him?"

- Terry Pratchett

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

- Peter Steele

I believe that serious reflection about the values we Europeans share is crucial for the vitality and energy of the European Union.

- Jan Peter Balkenende

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

- Alain de Vogue

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

- Alain de Vogue

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

- Alain de Vogue

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

- Alan Phillips

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans` surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.

- Alan Phillips

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

- Alessandro Profumo

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

- Alexander Utochkin

It`s striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

- Ali Aoun

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World`s Indian population.

- Ali Aoun

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

- Alison Mau

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

- Alle Fister

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

- Andrea Cerutti

We`ve talked to the Europeans about it. It`s clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council.

- Andreas Maurer

We don`t feel we are engaging the regime. Again, what we are doing is removing some objection to something the Europeans are doing.

- Andreas Maurer

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

- Andrew Forman

I feel I`ve lost ground. I got to 22, I`d been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, `This is it, 23, time to do it.` I`m now 24 and time moves on.

- Anthony Cannon

African football officials have to take another look at the African game because the Europeans are going to laugh at us if the refereeing is like that.

- Antone Smith

African football officials have to take another look at the African game because Europeans are going to laugh at us if the refereeing is like that.

- Antone Smith

African football officials have to have another look at the African game because Europeans are going to laugh at us if the refereeing is like that.

- Antone Smith

This is the place to be for jumpers. Our best-kept secret, now the Europeans have discovered it, I`m very happy to say, because that only ups the ante and makes the competition increasingly better.

- April Elkashef

The Europeans had a head start in establishing pilot schemes but they remain academically focused and have been slow to commercialize a resource that can economically compete with fossil fuels as a means of electricity generation.

- Autumn Nichols

The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

- Barrett Green