Top 845 Quotes & Sayings by Belgian Authors - Page 3

I like to challenge myself, to compare myself against the best.

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

I like to see myself as open-minded.

Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.

When you play for United, you have to perform every week.

You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

As a goalkeeper, you are only remembered for your last game.

I think Eden has the qualities and talent to play in England. On his day, he can make the difference for his team.

My father drove a bus in Anderlecht and he took me to training every day in Brussels from when I was 11 to 18.

Obviously, everyone needs to find a system and playing style that suits you more.

It's always tough when you miss a Grand Slam, especially Wimbledon.

Madrid and London are great.

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

I'm an efficient striker, but I'm not a joker.

As players, we are traveling all around the world and in a lot of airports.

Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and I always love tailoring, but today you can have more things for this type of situation, clothes that have class and that are mixable, and that are super well cut.

I'm just looking for touching characters.

Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

Of course you have Messi and Ronaldo. And then you've got a lot of players who are very close to each other and I think Gareth Bale is one of them, like at the level of the best teams in the world. He could play for every team in the world. For me he's a world class player.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.

As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand.

Certainly when you're surrounded by top-class players, like Cesc Fabregas, Eden Hazard, all of them, you only can make progress in a situation like that.

When I was young, I never shot. I always wanted to dribble the ball in the goal.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

We live in a strange bubble.

One way to become more attractive as an employer to millennials is to offer different kinds of contracts - not only the classical contract of indefinite duration, but also to be open to having more contractors and flexibility.

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

In the Premier League you need creative players to open games up.

I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

Pochettino likes to play from the back, with the buildup, have the ball.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Ribosomes contain RNA, messenger RNA provides the information, transfer RNAs brings the amino acids; so the protein-making machinery is an RNA machinery, completely.

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

The only thing I can do is work hard.

When a manager calls you and says you are part of his plans and that he trusts you, then you will give everything for him.

I don't need to explain myself. All the managers I've had know my quality.

I love to show fans what I'm excited about and to get them excited.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

Warp speed developments in technology - automation, artificial intelligence, and the arrival of the sharing economy - are transforming how we work. Beyond technology, traditional working patterns are also being disrupted by changes in society, organizations and workforce management, leading to the rise of a more independent and dispersed workforce.

Do you ever sit in Starbucks and watch people go by? Everyone has energy around them, and you can tell what kind of person they are just by the way they walk and talk.

I'll be connected with City for the rest of my life - as a fan, as an employee, as an ambassador. Whatever City decide or I decide, it's not something we can undo. We're tied to each other for life.

Would I have liked to play for PSG? Yes.

Music is more than words. It's a visual experience, too, and people really feel my music because of the way I move and put on a show.

Liverpool followed me for a long time. When I arrived in the offices there, they showed me cassettes of me in the Under-15s. Everyone knew me. I couldn't believe it.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

Ajax is in every way a fantastic club.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

It's not easy when you have to replay the break point again.

I've never found a key to beat Roger.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Everybody knows that they can be the best player in the team, but if they don't work, then it's not going to be good enough.

When you're a kid, there is always a club that catches your attention.