Dries van Noten Quotes

You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.

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• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Knowing

• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Together
  • Understanding
  • Sit

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Nature
  • Pain
  • Human Nature

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Enough
  • Possible

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • You
  • Road
  • Enjoy

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Desire
  • Audience
  • Conformity

• It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
  • Should
  • University

• My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

  

  Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
  • People

• I will not campaign for any party.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Party

• …and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Men
  • Wonder
  • Littles

• Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well.

  

  Chris Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • True