Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 4

People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

The best thing about football, and sport in general, is that if you suffer a big disappointment, then there is no better feeling than coming back the following year and doing well.

I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

They abolished the off-side rule in field hockey and there were no problems.

The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamization is not a crime.

I really hate rubber ducks, actually.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.

Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz.

Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.

I'm not a player any more, I'm a fan, and I want to see somebody who wants to win and wants to fight.

We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose to improving people's lives through innovation.

Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.

I let people say and write what they want.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

Preparing your tactical formation is essential. Each player needs to know where he has to be, and that is why there needs to be mutual understanding: because you need absolute discipline.

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

I want to move to one of Europe's best clubs if I leave Rotterdam, just like Robin van Persie and Kuyt did before.

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can't do it, something holds them back... the same goes for shooting the enemy. We've got this fascinating evidence from the Second World War, and also from other wars, that most soldiers couldn't do it.

My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why we couldn't just clean it up. That rather simple question stuck in my head.

Look, when I was working on a project at school, I had the urge to do that well. And if I'm fixing something up at home or whatever, making something, I want to do that well too. If I'm hanging a lamp and it doesn't work, nobody can talk to me for an hour, almost. And with football I have that urge and that will to win. With all sports.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I could have joined West Brom or Brighton. What would have happened had I joined one of them? I do not want to think about it. I do not think about it.

I was never really a dog guy, we never had dogs in the house when I was young. But my missus did so we got this dog and I always thought, 'how can you love dogs?' But when I got one, it's one of the best things.

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

The important thing, is to believe in a better future.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

I think every player gives a bit extra when he sees that his manager is fighting, too.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

Government should seek more strategic approaches to developing dynamic, resilient infrastructure. Business must be more creative in offering financing solutions as partners with government, and people must support sustainable innovation as a public policy priority.

I'm just not very rock n' roll.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Back in 2008, nobody wanted to listen to or play my music. They called it trance. There was no market for it, but I just kept going.

So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I'm past all that.

In football a championship team is never bought, it's built with time and patience.

I've always known that beauty is also from the inside - if you're happy, that will shine through - I've always believed that, but since I've started having a family, I became even more happy, and I think it even shows more. I've also become more successful since I've become a mother.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception.

The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests.

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

I am happy that I will be able to drive again and I will also see Eddie Jordan again, as it's been some time since I had direct contact with him. I am really curious to see what it's like with the Jordan team and how they will react to me, what they want to tell me.

The DNA of AC Milan is something I have inside me.