Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 16

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Moroccan boys never steal from Moroccans.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Nexit is the best thing that can happen to us.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

My plan was to put him on a go-kart track when he was six years-old but he was with his mum at a track in Genk and he called me up crying because he saw a younger guy driving on the track. He said to me 'Daddy, I want to do this,' so when I got home from the Canadian GP, I bought him a go-kart and that's how he started.

People know who Carlo Ancelotti is. He's a man with a lot of experience.

I take risks; sometimes I lose the ball. It happens. This is the football.

At my first clubs, TOP Oss and NEC, I was the one everybody looked at and talked about, but at Feyenoord, I was one of many good players.

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

Manchester United breathes football.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

My quality is my intuition. I can't just ignore that, can I? Then I'd be a player of whom there are a thousand of my age.

If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

We as a species have unlimited power of our mind. We can make anything happen.

I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.

I learned a lot from my career.

In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.

And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

I'm honest - of course I want to be a legend.

The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.

Freedom is a universal value.

Don't give up at the first hurdle you encounter.

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

I'm not so much in the gym. I don't push weights.

It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

If you don't know something, just go and ask.

My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

I am appalled by Le Pen's anti-Semitic past and feelings. A man who says the Holocaust is no more than a footnote in history is beyond my comprehension.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don't have.

I am always grateful for what I have, and I think it is important to continue having a passion for music.

Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

People always say I'm a bad loser.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

Looking at the world through a sustainability lens not only helps us 'future proof' our supply chain, it also fuels innovation and drives brand growth.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.

If you are a happy man then you can give your best.

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

Unfortunately, life unfolds as it does, and you can't do everything at the same time, and you can't do some things if you can't spend the time.

I started my whole career on Soundcloud and YouTube and was always looking for recourses to make music.

I worked at the number one team in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and now also in England.

I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.

Your library is your paradise.

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

My wife Yolanthe and I love Inter, the Italian fans, and Italy.

I think I will never stop working with music; it has become a part of who I am.

I think it's strange to change the turf three days before a match.

We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.

I like to keep my wheels on the ground.