Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 11

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

I know it's a cliche, but the sun makes me happy. When you can feel the sunshine on you, you feel better, happier, and naturally, every human being needs the sun.

Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.

The Champions League is so difficult, It's like a lottery: sometimes you're just unlucky.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

I don't want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

My body is strong, and I have a strong will.

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.

'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.

I've been the captain at Ajax and once for the national team - it's nice and makes you an important player.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change.

A team like Barcelona always has targets, and that's quite normal.

There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.

Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a chance to learn his language of filming.

Some players have 18 years in football. But some players are injured before they start. When I thought like that I said: 'If I compare with that I have been very lucky. At least I had 10 years of a beautiful experience that changed my life for ever.'

When you lose games, you analyse them more than when you win.

I will give always my best. I will continue that until the end.

Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'm just basically focused on what I need to do. There's a lot that goes into this - diet, preparation, assembling the right people around you, sparring partners, coaches, etc. - so I'm not enjoying anything.

My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know every classical piece of music.

I have had nice years in Turkey.

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

I mean, proud of myself, I always say that everything that I do is a work in progress.

I worked out six hours a day, six days a week, to get 16 pounds of extra muscle.

I sometimes train extra till four or five o'clock at the gym if I feel that I have to do something extra.

I always try to get the best result out of it, I'm not there to just sit second or sit third. I'm a winner, and I want to win every single race, and I will always go for it.

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea that the past is irrelevant to tomorrow - and tomorrow is all that matters. But the past is part of who we are.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

My style is all about drama, color, and just having fun!

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?'

So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

I would be so proud to finish my career with a European medal.

The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.

I like spending time with my husband.

At home, I make the decisions.

No relationship is great all the time.

Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.

I heard there was a debate about fighting teammates, and if a fight should happen because the fans or promoter wants it, I will fight a teammate, but family is ridiculous.

It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.

I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.

You always learn from a defeat, even more than when you win games, because when you win, you don't see everything you did wrong.

I had my own youth. I had fun playing in the amateurs, going out with my friends on the weekend, drinking a beer, that sort of thing.

I think the hardest accent for me to do is what I end up trying a lot of times, and it's like some sort of a general American sound. So not Southern and not east-coast or west-coast, but just a general American sound that no one really speaks, actually.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

Touring is not easy, as you always have a certain yearning for home no matter how beautiful the location you are in, but I have pushed myself to the limits and am certainly more aware of myself as a result.

Suzuka is a nice circuit.

I am not a supporter of juniors increasingly going to top clubs.

There is a perfectly good alternative to the European Union - it is called the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are members. E.F.T.A. stands for friendship and cooperation through free trade.