Cees Nooteboom Quotes

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

Cees Nooteboom

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Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

Omar Ahmad
- Time
- Work
- Dog
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Warren Bennis
- Future
- Man
- Dog
I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

Uta Hagen
- Dog
- England
- Go
I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

E. G. Marshall
- Thinking
- Character
- Fire
Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

Ted Lindsay
- Night
- Effort
- Winning
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Eckhart Tolle
- Mind
- History
- Thought