Jan Toorop Quotes

It is a sort of quasi-monastic diabolical vision. In a landscape populated with larvae - flowing and undulating larvae called forth like a cascade of leeches by tolling bells - three female figures rise up phantasmally, enshrouded with gauze like Spanish madonnas. They are the 'three brides': the bride of Heaven, the bride of the Earth and the bride of Hell...

The bride of Hell, with her two serpents writhing about her temples to hold her veil in place, has the most attractive mask: the most profound eyes, the most vertiginous smile that one could ever see.

If she existed, how I would love that woman! I feel that if that smile and those eyes were in my life they would be all the cure I need!

I could never tire of the study and contemplation of that hallucinatory visage.

"The Three Brides" is very peculiar in its detail and composition. It is the whimsy of a dream rendered with astonishing fastidiousness: the delusion of an opium-smoker composed in the style of Holbein. ~ Jean Lorrain

From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people. ~ Jan Chipchase

It's better to lose our pride to the one You Love, than to lose the one we love, because of our pride. ~ Jan Jansen

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all. ~ Ignacy Jan Paderewski

We are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely. ~ Jan Clausen

Lust shouts. Love whispers. Only the heart knows the difference. ~ Jan Hurst-Nicholson

Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous! ~ Jan Carlzon

These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to change the situation for the animals. Farm animals are providing us with the food to stay alive, so I think we really owe them a decent life while they are alive. ~ Jan Cameron

Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis. ~ Jan Egeland

[He taught her] that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life, without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we will age, and that we cannot elude death. These are the laws and conditions of human existence. ~ Jan-Philipp Sendker

Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that. ~ Jan Schakowsky

If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway. ~ Jan Carlzon

[T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living. ~ Jan Struther

Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product. ~ Jan Koum

Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought. ~ Bernard Jan

I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction. ~ Jan Brewer

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge ~ Jan Valtin

Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence. ~ Jan Morris

Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios between facial features that identify you as you. It's like a fingerprint. ~ Jan Chipchase

Left wing ... Right wing ... it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone? ~ Jan Struther

Whoever thought up the word 'mammogram'? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. ~ Jan King

I knew it wasn't the right kind of love, because it required nothing of me. I did not need to worry about keeping it alive or putting it out since it was kept alive quite independently of anything I might or might not do. He would not be someone who demanded anything of me. He would hold on to whatever pieces I offered him, however flawed they might be. It did not bind me to him - somehow, it freed me. Louise ~ Jan Ellison

To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund. ~ Jan Cameron

In a state that continued to be saddled with a sternly limited governmental structure devised when the South was just emerging from the bruising experience of the Civil War and Reconstruction, she also had to contend with fact that national politics and changing demographics had left her swimming for her life as a liberal Democrat in an ocean of conservative Republicans. In a failed presidential campaign, Texas's Republican senator Phil Gramm once boasted that the best thing a politician can have is money. It helps, of course, and yet he was proved quite wrong: the biggest advantage a politician can have is that people like you. ~ Jan Reid

When we are on tour we also take chances. ~ Jan Garbarek

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty. ~ Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency. ~ Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Evil will Never win from Righteousness ~ Jan Jansen

Jan 1899 You must aim at the Staff College, but for the love of God never become a professional Staff Officer. Never lose touch with the troops. Remember that you serve the troops and it is the troops who matter. They are the folk who win victories, take care of your men and they will never let you down. ~ Richard Meinertzhagen

Let colors in Your life Shine like the Sun. ~ Jan Jansen

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits. ~ Jan Peacock

We all know in our mind what we want, but nobody know exactly what we Get. ~ Jan Jansen

This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day's pocketful of memories, this deft habitual sharing of two pairs of eyes, two pairs of ears. It gave you, in a sense, almost a double life: though never, on the other hand, quite a single one. ~ Jan Struther

A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength. ~ Jan Valtin

We have all another or different Life and Free time.
Jan Jansen ~ Jan Jansen

From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Jan 7 at 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: Really?
On the Tumblr-you mean creeksecrets? .....
But I really don't think I'm wrong.
Jacques a dit. Right?
-Blue

So, Yeah, I've been careless. I guess I left a trail of clues. and I shouldn't be surprised that Blue put them together. Maybe I kind of wanted him to.

Jacques a dit is "Simon Says" in French, by the way, And it's obviously not as clever as I thought it was. ~ Becky Albertalli

In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.
(In the Company of Others) ~ Jan Karon

Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever. ~ Jan Timman

Once people needed heaven and hell, Elysium and Faerie. They believed. Belief is the great creative force, the faith that moves mountains. If Someone had not believed in us, so they say, we would never have been born. I have spent my darkest hours wondering what kind of a Creator would have believed in me. Kal ~ Jan Siegel