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Listen, don't get my Jersey pride going. We are the most densely-populated state in America 'cause some many people who know the secret want to live there.
Where were we a year ago, Bink?" "In Vienna." "In Vienna, swiving opera singers." They shared a moment of silent recollection. "And now you're an earl. A man of responsibility. You'll want a wife.
It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.
Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny
Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.
Me: What will I do?
MK: What you always do--only in Switzerland.
Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods.
Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
On March 4, 1981, Burlington elected him mayor - by a margin of ten votes out of more than 9,600 cast.15 ("Ten anarchist votes!" Murray would say. "And I know who they were!")
Build us a bridge to where you are.
I grew up in Zurich until I was 12, and I've always come to Vorderer Sternen for a sausage, a hunk of bread, and some mustard.
Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.
It's a strange city ... filled with things that are not obvious.
Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.
Germany has been born anew.
The weirdest thing about Tibet is that the most popular beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon. Everywhere, even on the slopes of Everest, cans of Pabst lay alongside the road labeled, 'Established in Milwaukee in 1849'.
I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.
Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.
Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
Goldsboro, North Carolina.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
I'm ashamed to be German.
Give me a map and I'll build you a city.
I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.
The great white city of brotherhood, Washington ...
London; a nation, not a city.
And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.
I believe when you're speaking English, you're allowed to refer to it as Prague.
I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there.
Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!
We're gonna do like Posh and Becks and call it after the place it was conceived."
"Where's that?" I asked.
"King of Prussia.
Seattle, I get a call from Ben.
Ibiza is very close to my heart.
When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.
The City that knows how.
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
New York has an electronic heart.
The thing about Manchester is ... it all comes from here
Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.
Basle, Zurich, Baden, Paris - the flickering of steel rails over the arterial systems of Europe's body: steel ganglia meeting and dividing away across mountains and valleys.
The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.
Another Country,
I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.
I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
district: small,
I was born on June 3rd, 1929, in Graenichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16.
Went to Wiesbaden first, a pleasant, gay place, full of people.
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.
Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
There would be no bohemia without smoking.
Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one society. That holds us back from excesses. We are a civilized and enlightened community and, by practising multicultural tolerance, we manage to stop extreme developments from going too far.
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
I spent a little more than five months in Vienna. I danced. I went ice skating and skiing. For strenuous exercise, I argued with an Englishman.
If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.
Uh, a honking big castle of evil in Germany?
Dresden: of all German cities, Smiley's favourite. He had loved its architecture, its odd jumble of medieval and classical buildings, sometimes reminiscent of Oxford, its cupolas, towers, and spires, its copper-green roofs shimmering under a hot sun.
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.
[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage ...
Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.
Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
The cool, grey city of love.
The Mayor of Murslaugh was a jolly, ebullient man of the sort who, in a well-ordered world, would be called Fezziwig. That his name was Brown was a powerful indictment on the sorry state of things.
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strausswaltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella.
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.
Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where a man's word is still his bond.
Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal.
Clare. Give me a reason to stay.
Blue skies of Barcelona. I took a taxi to the school, where I expected to be
Thriving metropolis. Home to dozens.
Massachusetts, which is hard to spell, it is hard not to
At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city,
Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made,
They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,)
A music club and music warehouse pretty.
The Swiss will never be the wild child of Europe; you only have to look at their lovingly tended vegetable patches to see that. But whether they are boring or not most likely depends on the eye of the beholder.
The rise to power of a right-wing lunatic in a free election in Germany.
There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state of mind.
When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.
Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool.
Seattle, Washington.
Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?
from Uppsala, a Swedish city that doesn't interest many people. Even the inhabitants of Uppsala* themselves are embarrassed; the name of their city sounds almost like an excuse. Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.
My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise.