Top 845 Quotes & Sayings by Belgian Authors - Page 5

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

I have a daughter and a family.

I am who I am, and I try to influence the team in my own way, especially with my performances on the pitch. If possible, I try to help the team in the dressing room as well by offering encouragement where needed.

Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

In the first season with Sarri I only played six games as a starter.

My favourite thing, what I want of course, is to play in the Champions League with Tottenham.

I think the Congolese music is more important in the African community that Rwandan. You know, Rwanda is not musically really important in Africa. It's interesting, of course. But Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Against Novak and Rafa, you have balls to hit, but they are so physically really tough. And Roger, he just takes position in the court. He tries to go forward all the time, go for the winners. Then you just don't play tennis against him.

To hear my name sung at WHL & Wembley made me incredibly proud.

I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings McDonald's.

Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot - like, in kindergarten, it was almost all French. But then I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, where we obviously spoke English all the time, so I lost the French a little bit.

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.

I broke everything inside the house - boom! - but my mother was always very nice. She'd say, 'OK, OK, have another ball.'

Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

I love black and yellow. Black and yellow is Batman; black and yellow is Spongebob!

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

'SpongeBob' is a cartoon I love. Especially when I'm in bed by myself at home and I have trouble sleeping, my reflex is to put cartoons on.

For Buffon, I hear he trains less on the field, and he is more focused on keeping his muscles strong.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.

I was ready to leave Holland and Serie A is a big step for me.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

Hard work eliminates fear. That's how I think.

When you're young, you might not be ready to deal with the frustration of playing the big guys and dealing with their power. But we move better, we see the ball earlier, we can play faster. That's why you see smaller guys able to compete. We use the power of our opponent.

I like to watch the top teams in different countries, like Spain or Bayern Munich in Germany. The rest I don't watch. I have nothing to do with that. I'm not a freak. I know guys who watch every game. I'm not like that.

I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

Sometimes you're a victim of your own success.

I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

It is not in my character to not give 100 percent.

I'm a social guy, I think.

Yes, my heart is in Madrid.

If you do an outside spin with the ball, it's more difficult to control it, so I try to pass it in a way that allows them to take the ball quicker in their path. That way, they may have more of an advantage to score or create themselves.

My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.

I have four or five custom suits, including one that's velvet, and a gray one I wear onstage. It's wool.

It's a mistake to think that there's a difference between someone on the street and someone not on the street.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

I have one thing in mind: make the most out of football.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.