Van Evera Quotes

You have first to experience what you want to express. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

I survived - and looking back, I learned not to sweat the little stuff. ~ Dick Van Dyke

[He] had the hard eyes of the disciplinarian and the smile of a man who must be tactful and pleasant to many people. ~ A.E. Van Vogt

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival. ~ Billy Cannon

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life. ~ Joan Van Ark

If I knew my friends, they weren't going to make these last eleven days easy. They wanted to win their damn bets, and they wanted me to finally get my head out of my ass, by any means possible. I was pretty confident they didn't really think any sort of law applied to them, and the thought of prison clearly wasn't a deterrent if our past circumstances were any indication. Milo ~ Rachel Van Dyken

The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders. ~ Hendrik Willem Van Loon

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. ~ Van Morrison

If God meant for us to carry baggage around, he would have made our skin have little pouches like kangaroos. Or maybe he would have just made it so that each and every one of us were born with huge- ass shoulders to carry the load. Clearly, we weren't made to carry the weight of the world, kinda makes you wonder why we do it anyway, huh? ~ Rachel Van Dyken

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn]. ~ Paul Smith

He rests his forehead on mine. "Thank you," he whispers.
"For?"
"Being mine."
… "Am I? Yours?"
"You are," he says, voice firm. "Just as much as I'm yours."
"I like the sound of that."
"Me, too. ~ Jennifer Van Wyk

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. ~ Chris Van Allsburg

In some respects Abbott proved to be the id of Australia's modern conservative movement: hyper-adversarial, willing to occupy itself in opposition to whatever social issues were preoccupying the left. Owing more to American political culture than the British inheritance Abbott claimed to value, contemporary Australian conservatism makes the grave error of believing in things other than power and stability. ~ Peter Van Onselen

It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure streams of water at them, concludes that he has discovered the method by which the liners cross the Atlantic. ~ Peter Van Inwagen

I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too. ~ Chad Urmston

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Now on a sloping meadow hours into a fresh day, he found himself a desperate man, struggling to free himself from the shackles of a life he had not pursued. And her voice trickled through him, an icicle perpetually melting. ~ Simon Van Booy

Lives are staged from within. ~ Simon Van Booy

I think if you love someone, you shouldn't care about her appearance at all. Loving someone because of her physical attribute isn't love. It's either lust or crush. ~ Rachel Van Dyken

Our grief was leading us all towards Mexican food. ~ Jonathan Van Ness

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what? ~ Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. you're a shitty person but a good writer. ~ John Green

My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000. ~ Charles Van Doren

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across. ~ Van Morrison

Everybody knows that I'm shorter, but it doesn't bother me at all. ~ Dick Van Dyke

When the main characters meet, you're filled with this warm hopeful glow, ya know? And we laugh, sometimes till there's tears, because of all the little embarrassing situations they find themselves in trying to get together. And then there's this romantic confession of love, and your're elated because they're finally together. And they should be. You know this. And even though it was completely predictable, you cry. I cry. ~ Victoria Van Tiem

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest. ~ Steven Van Zandt

Culture is concerned with the world of values. All cultures are irreducibly value-oriented. ~ Henry R. Van Til