Top 988 Quotes & Sayings by Dutch Authors - Page 9

One of my rules for life is: 'When in doubt, assume the best,' because in the end, most people are pretty decent.

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

You have to be open to everything.

Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin.

My first dream as a young boy was to be a gymnast and my first memory of football is of watching Ajax win the European Cup in 1971. It was a time when a great philosophy was being developed at Ajax, making rounded players who were there as a complete team rather than as 11 individuals.

I'm very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. When we spend time with them, I think we do our utmost best to be really with them - on vacations or during weekends or even at breakfast in the morning.

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.

One of the main inspirations behind The Power of Makeup was bullies and the one thing I believe in is that makeup is not just society, it's for you.

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

The first record I heard as a kid? My dad is a great soul and blues fan, so he showed me James Brown. That was my first stuff, and I loved it.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

I feel like it's always important to curl your eyelashes. I always do when I wake up and you know you look tired, when you curl eyelashes and put mascara it makes such a huge difference, so that's the trick that I always use.

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

I even got invited to a 'Star Trek' sea cruise. That was pretty exciting.

Many clubs wanted to know when I was leaving Inter, and Liverpool was one of those clubs, so people were surprised I chose Galatasaray.

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

When you build the house, you don't start with the roof.

Street football features all the basics of football: you get a lot of touches on the ball, it is fast, teaches you to think quickly and to be creative.

I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

With the phase-contrast method still in the first somewhat primitive stage, I went in 1932 to the Zeiss Works in Jena to demonstrate. It was not received with such enthusiasm as I had expected.

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.

I find the opera part in 'The Greatest Show on Earth' challenging.

I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.

Every footballer plays with the hope that people love to watch you. But, for me, there is no sympathy or interest. I don't seem to have any charm for fans.

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

It's all about sound. It's that simple.

Where I grew up, there was one supermarket, one school, one hairdresser, and that was it. It was a very small community.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

PSG wanted to sign me. For me, it was confirmation that I am on the right track and was in a good spell. My heart told me I had to stay at PSV where I still have things to achieve.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.

As a DJ, I'm really focused on the crowd. I never play the same set. I always look at the crowd, try to read what they want, and always look at the signs, point at people.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.

I'm from Holland, and I'm used to rain.

Whether they are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or atheist, everybody has a place in this society.

If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.

In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

I started in a 4-3-3 formation at Ajax, playing in left midfield. There, you need to be just as involved defensively as you are going forward. You attack and you defend, and that allows you to be a complete player.

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

There's nothing more frustrating than when you hear a track and you can never find out what it is.

It was very special to score goals for Real Madrid, especially in front of the home crowd at the Bernabeu.

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

My role is the same with or without the armband.

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.