Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 6

Now, when you've been in the band for three years, you get used to the position, in a sense. I don't think about it every day like, 'Oh my God, I'm the singer of Nightwish!'

When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.

I would beat Michael Bisping. I would jab his face the whole night. Easy.

Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

If someone wants to make very, very original music that no one has ever heard before, you shouldn't know anything about music. It just narrows you down, you know?

If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

I want to play as long as possible at the highest level.

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

Neutral looks are nice to look at, but I think that with some added drama you can make any outfit more beautiful.

I learn from my failures, but I will always try technical things; I will always try to take pleasure and do great things.

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

In the end, if you can't trust each other, what's the point of being married?

I think it's difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Yes, I am just a type who likes to watch the cat out of the tree. I want to start quietly, and then always build, always go higher.

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.

The influence of social media is unbelievable. It's sad to see - it's a fake life that some people live.

Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

I don't want to leave Feyenoord before having made an impact at the club.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war or a natural disaster or an epidemic like we're going through right now, the worst comes out in each of us.

To get a sense of a person, to get their essence, it's not just about details. It is about something you can't really describe.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

If anyone has to overtake me, I'm glad that it is Messi.

Star Trek' always had a pretty serious atmosphere, but with 'Twin Peaks,' you walked onto the set and you had the feeling that everybody was walking around in a trance.

I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Holland, very popular, and it's a big opportunity to become the first person that holds two world titles in two different sports.

You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.

I'm always responsible and a father, you want the best for your children. You push hard. You have to teach him things of life.

You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

We need to be able to answer not yesterday's challenges but to tomorrow's challenges.

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.

All those who are here can stay. I don't say send them home like he does.

No person is the same, and so you can't treat each player identically.

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

Martial arts is like dance. It's so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically says is you take their energy and you redirect it. Then if you need to, use it on them. That whole thing about redirecting energy I love.

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love.

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

I've never had like many friends, I've had a few. It's just something that's in my character, in my personality.

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.