Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 2

Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?

Politics and football don't mix.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Defect-free software does not exist.

But Tottenham is pure football and pure people... nice, warm people. That's why I like Tottenham. And everybody who comes to the stadium can smell the history.

I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.

I have tremendous respect for my colleagues.

I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.

I think I was the last teenager to get WhatsApp.

I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.

We all have different sides; nobody is just one thing.

My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

Keep going and keep believing and do what makes you feel good. And when you feel good and get to the point where no-one can take that from you, then that feeling will the best feeling.

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.

I don't like to look too far ahead normally, I see it season-by-season or game-by-game.

The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Without my dad, mum and siblings I wouldn't be here. Everything they did for me, I'm so thankful.

I never wanted to be an actor. It was just something that happened.

I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.

There is the idea that, when we look at things, it is the yellow light that helps us the most, that we are the most sensitive for. But our circadian rhythms, which are the rhythms that help us to wake and sleep and be alert and relaxed and so forth and so on, they are much more triggered by blue light.

I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

I'm proud of my short hair. I don't think I will grow it long again.

I love to smile.

I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society.

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.