Van Aldin Quotes

You're like me, you can't bear to let go. But I've learnt, and you've
got to learn, that there are times when it's the only way. ~ Van Aldin, The Mystery Of The Blue Train, Agatha Christie

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science. ~ Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

What's the use of fast iteration if all it does is get us to a suboptimal solution more quickly, ~ Rian Van Der Merwe

There are people with their iPads are taking pictures so much that they're not experiencing the moment. They go home and look at the pictures later. ~ Dick Van Dyke

I can live only wholly with you or not at all. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife. ~ Van Morrison

The type of love that makes you want to laugh out loud - scream a bit - run in circles - and then repeat? Yeah that's how I felt about Wes. Totally. Out. Of. Control. Giddiness ~ Rachel Van Dyken

In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD. ~ Jack Van Impe

Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up. ~ Ethan Coen

We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of life. ~ R.W. Van Bemmelen

Naturally, I have no heroes: I am my heroes. I am my brothers and sisters. I feel myself joined by the soul with all beauty. My heart sings with every brave endeavour. With the strange wings of impossible butterflies, with every rock that breathes life into the world. I stand shoulder to shoulder with all denouncers of meanness. I honour spirit and faith and uphold the glorious amateur. I'm in love with desperate men with desperate hands, walking in second-hand shoes searching for God and hearing God and hating God. I'm a desperate man, buckled with fear, I am a desperate man who demands to be listened to, who demands to connect. I'm a desperate man who denounces the dullness of money and status. I'm a desperate man who will not bow down to accolade or success. I'm a desperate man who loves the simplicity of painting and hates galleries and white walls and the dealers in art. Who loves unreasonableness and hotheadedness, who loves contradiction, hates publishing houses and also I am Vincent Van Gogh, Hiroshige and every living artist who dares to draw God on this planet. ~ Billy Childish

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Hope is dangerous. ~ Allison Van Diepen

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. ~ Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. ~ Greg Van Eekhout

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising. ~ Gus Van Sant

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that. ~ Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I grasped the who, and that was enough when I didn't understand the why. What I have learned along the way, and what Job learned too, is that it is better to know God than to know the answers! ~ Kasey Van Norman

I won't let anything happen to you - I swear on my life, I'll protect you until the day I die. ~ Rachel Van Dyken

He told me it was First, by Van Cleef & Arpels. ~ Elaine Sciolino

My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game. ~ Rafael Van Der Vaart

Why put out your umbrella when the sun is shining? Enjoy the sunshine. ~ Tanya Van Rooyen

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made. ~ Chris Van Allsburg

And so I do. I have inter course, right there in the Hotel van Walsum dining room. I enjoy it very much, this unhurried dining experience. I sip my beer, stare into space, and, in general, do nothing--until the waiter brings the grilled salmon, indicating that, for now, my inter course is over. ~ Eric Weiner

A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person's natural rights. ~ Frank Van Dun

Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all. ~ Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

When you're sick, who does the shopping or takes you to the doctor? Who do you talk to when you are upset?" In other words, who provides you with emotional and practical support? Some patients gave us surprising answers: "my dog" or "my therapist" – or "nobody". ~ Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation. ~ Eddie Van Halen

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. ~ Matthew Sweet

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. ~ David Bailey

As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist of essential importance in the way he analyzes the past. ~ Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it? ~ Vincent Van Gogh

What did you do?" "Blew up a fuel depot, stole twelve rockets and made off with them in a stolen van, got kidnapped by a maniac, and had dinner with a guy who farted fire." "That would be funny, but I'm worried it's all true." "It's been a long couple days." "Did he really fart fire?" Morelli asked. ~ Janet Evanovich

I can intellectualize myself out of anything. ~ James Van Der Beek

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it. ~ Dick Van Dyke

Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he'd put tigers in them. ~ Bill Watterson

But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith . ~ Vincent Van Gogh

The narrow black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old diamond buckle which her lover had given her, was dragged a little up, and showed a red mark on her throat. Arthur did not notice it, but I could hear the deep hiss of indrawn breath which is one of Van Helsing's ways of betraying emotion. ~ Bram Stoker