Prague in Quotes
Prague isn’t just a city, but an entity of some kind. -Sezin Koehler
Prague changes like a precious stone to reflect the weather, the time of day and the season of the year –Christian Norberg-Schulz
Prague is the Paris of the ’90s –Marion Ross
Prague never lets you go… this dear little mother has sharp claws –Franz Kafka
The miracle of my life is to awaken every morning in the 21st century – in Prague –Alan Levy
The ancient splendor and beauty of Prague, a city beyond compare, left an impression on my imagination that will never fade –Richard Wagner
We are living in the Left Bank of the ’90s. For some of us, Prague is Second Chance City; for others a new frontier where anything goes, everything goes, and, often enough, nothing works. Yesterday is long gone, today is nebulous, and who knows about tomorrow, but, somewhere within each of us, we all know that we are living in a historic place at a historic time –Alan Levy in The Prague Post, October 1, 1991 (first issue)
This movie could have been shot in only three cities, Vienna, Budapest or Prague because only these three cities have the 18th century architecture. Prague was ideal, Prague was absolutely ideal because thanks to communist inefficiency the 18th century was untouched. –Milos Forman from the Making of Amadeus (2002)
I’ve been to New York. It’s like Prague sans the whimsy –Brian Griffin, Family Guy (1999)
If European cities were a necklace, Prague would be a diamond among the pearls –Anynymous
In Prague, pork is king [...] Welcome to Porkopolis, the land that vegetables forgot –Anthony Bourdain
Prague most resembles Rome… The aristocratic beauty of the women of Prague, the way they walk and the way they are attired, so graceful and elegant, reminded me of Dante’s Paradise –August Rodin
I had gone to Prague determined to be the first visiting writer not to make use of the name Franz Kafka, but the numbing bureaucracy got the better of me –Christopher Hitchens
