Cees Nooteboom Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
-
Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
-
There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
-
I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
-
It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
-
I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
-
Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
-
The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.
-
Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?
-
My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.
-
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
-
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
-
Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]
-
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
-
That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.
-
Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
-
Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
