Cees Nooteboom Quotes

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

Cees Nooteboom

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• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• How does one get bored of life?

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Bored
  • How

• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Cool

• I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Advice
  • Act
  • Welcome

• You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Me
  • See

• It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Practice

• The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • World
  • Strong
  • Opportunities

• McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • School
  • High

• To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Eyes
  • Poetry
  • See

• We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Innocent
  • Privacy

• My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Money
  • Friends

• The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Enemy

• I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Thinking

• Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Party
  • Tea

• There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,-live in peace,-adieu.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Justice

• I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Family
  • Energy

• Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's — the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train — there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Together
  • Black
  • Girl

• I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Faith

• I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Life
  • Country
  • Lying

• 'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Find
  • Box

• Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Baseball
  • Perspective

• I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

  

  Cees Nooteboom
  • Life
  • World
  • Hindrance