Wium Van Quotes

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth. ~ Helen Van Slyke

What's all this about sin, eh?'
'That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl that was in the shape of like a kidney.
'Music,' said Dr. Brodsky, like musing. 'So you're keen on music. I know nothing about it myself. It's a useful emotional heightener, that's all I know. Well, well. What do you think about that, eh, Branom?'
'It can't be helped,' said Dr. Branom. 'Each man kills the thing he loves ... ~ Anthony Burgess

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls? ~ Greta Van Susteren

I'm to be married."
"To whom?"
"I haven't yet chosen him. Never fear, I'll be sure to notify him before the wedding. Naturally. ~ Rachel Van Dyken

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts. ~ Paul Van Dyk

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other. ~ Simon Van Booy

We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country. ~ Steven Van Zandt

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side. ~ Van Wyck Brooks

I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it. ~ Dick Van Patten

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. ~ Gus Van Sant

Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he'd so faithfully carried. ~ Simon Van Booy

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

You never forget your first love. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen

I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit. ~ Jeremy Clarkson

refers to the many branches of the vagus nerve - Darwin's "pneumogastric nerve" - which connects numerous organs, including the brain, lungs, heart, stomach, and intestines.) The Polyvagal Theory provided us with a more sophisticated understanding of the biology of safety and danger, one based on the subtle interplay between the visceral experiences of our own bodies and the voices and faces of the people around us. It explained why a kind face or a soothing tone of voice can dramatically alter the way we feel. It clarified why knowing that we are seen and heard by the important people in our lives can make us feel calm and safe, and why being ignored or dismissed can precipitate rage reactions or mental collapse. It helped us understand why focused attunement with another person can shift us out of disorganized and fearful states. ~ Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out. ~ Joan Van Ark

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

How do you let others in when you can't even look in the mirror? The answer is, you can't. But hopefully by showing them that they are lovable, they will start to see the truth. ~ Rachel Van Dyken

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

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life. ~ Helen Van Slyke

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers. ~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man. ~ Mamie Van Doren

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies. ~ Van Jones

As we have seen with reference to the experiences of Gauss and Poincare, the mathematicians also discovered the fact that our representations are "ordered" before we become aware of them. B.L. van der Waerden, who cites many examples of essential mathematical insights arising from the unconscious, concludes: " ... the unconscious is not only able to associate and combine, but even to judge. The judgment of the unconscious is an intuitive one, but it is under favorable circumstances completely sure. ~ C. G. Jung

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific. ~ Gus Van Sant

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen

Behind every death lay a set of questions. To move on was to agree to not disturb these questions, to let them settle with the body under the earth. Yet some questions so thoroughly dismantled the terms of your own life, turning away was gravitationally impossible. So she would not be moving on. She would keep disturbing and disturbing. She imagined herself standing over a grave with a shovel and hacking away at the soil. ~ Laura Van Den Berg

French psychiatrist Pierre Janet: "Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available." As ~ Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. ~ A.E. Van Vogt

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine

Amandine Bisset was so passionate for Eliot Walker that tiny silver sparks flew from her fingertips when she touched him. When they made love her whole body filled with white light so bright Amandine believed she might explode. ~ Menna Van Praag

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way. ~ Alex Van Halen

Hoy shit!" Van yells. "Tom Carter! On tour with us! Man, it's gonna be wild! Chicks, parties ... chicks! It's gonna be so fucking wild! The man is a fucking legend!"
Sonny looks shell-shocked. Then, he springs to life. "Damn straight, he's a legend! He's a pussy legend! We are touring with the best there is! Just think of the stuff he can teach us." He gets this dreamy look in his eyes.
Honestly, he's starting to freak me out. ~ Samantha Towle

There is really just one reason why I used to be slower when I was younger: I was holding myself back. I've learned that these self-imposed limits are soft and malleable, not absolute. ~ Diederik Van Hoogstraten

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone. ~ Eddie Van Halen

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together. ~ George C. Scott

If you get a chance you should marry an archaeologist. I don't suppose there are too many to go around, but it's the best sort of husband to have. The older a woman gets, the more he's interested in her. ~ Menna Van Praag

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Martyrs are the best possible advertisements for an unpopular cause. ~ Hendrik Willem Van Loon